SSH on by default? (Was: too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd)

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Wed Mar 21 19:34:48 UTC 2007


Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:56 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
> 
>> Really, if someone can type "ssh foo at bar", is it too much to ask that
>> they log on to bar locally and type "/sbin/chkconfig sshd
>> on; /sbin/service sshd start"?
> 
> IMO, yes. There are few times where I'll argue for services on by
> default but SSH is one of those fundamental services that one expects to
> have, pretty much on any box where an ssh server is installed. And yes,
> I'd argue that even applies to desktop/laptop users :-)
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 

I have to agree with this. We can try to improve the defaults, but I'd 
like to keep sshd on by default.

/Thomas




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