Desktop issues discussion proposal

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:24:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> For the firewall example specifically, there's no real reason firewalls on
> most systems should even _require_ configuration - we know what services
> are up, we should open those ports and close the other ports. On a
> desktop, that probably means everything is closed. If someone starts a
> service, the initscript or whatever can open the port. If you don't want a
> port open, stop the service.

In that case, why even _have_ a firewall? If nothing's listening on a port,
it's not like anyone can connect to it.


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