What I HATE about F11

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Sun Jun 14 18:24:42 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:52 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:34:52 +0100
> > 
> > I think this is actually a problem that needs solving. We have
> > several network services that are either installed by default or
> > might be expected to be part of a standard setup, but which don't
> > work because of the default firewall rules. The Anaconda people have
> > (sensibly, IMHO) refused to simply add further exceptions to the
> > firewall policy.
> 
> there is an interesting issue;
> if you poke a hole in your firewall for all the ports that are listening
> automatically..... you might as well not have a firewall in the first
> place...

This is a chicken-and-egg problem.

FWIW, I'd want my created normal user to be added to wheel
automatically, and the useless firewall removed from the default desktop
install.




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