On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 07:45:06PM +0200, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: > up your computer quite a bit. For example just the additional selection > of KDE gets you a running avahi daemon. but that's the responsibility of the respective mainainer(s) > Inexperienced users may not even notice that they put their system at a > risk. > > It's certainly a bad idea to force something onto users they may not > understand. exactly, so don't force a firewall on them! > But if a user installs a debian package that lowers his systems security > there should be a big warning in the installer. agree, something like debconf: Are you shure you want this service running? This opens port bla on your network interface! <NO> <yes> cheers --Jan
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