Re: Question about Debian security policy
Greetings,
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2005 12:57 schrieb Paul Haesler:
> > Hi everybody. I hope this question won't be too stupid.
> > When I perform a standard installation (i.e minimal), the installer
> > installs many servers, and launches them (like portmap, ssh, exim,
> > etc). Why? I think that OpenBSD and FreeBSD, for example, don't launch
> > any daemon at all, or at least prompt you before doing that. There
> > must be a reason, but I don't see it (I'm not a networking/security
> > guru, so please forgive me if the answer is obvious).
>
> I think you'll find OpenBSD launches at least sshd and sendmail
> in the default install (although sendmail only listens on
> loopback interface by default). I've always wondered about
> portmap in debian myself - I presume it's to do with NFS. Perhaps
> it has to be part of the base system to support network installs.
When I last installed OpenBSD I was asked on whether I want so use ssh. It
doesn't start automatically.
Keep smiling
yanosz
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