Feature Request "secure by default"
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 10 14:24:30 UTC 2007
Andras Simon wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> So, talking about Fedora or RH systems, by default the daemon which
>> listen
>> for
>> connections are only the ones you'd choose to install during your
>> installation process, right?
>
> Not quite. I unchecked just about everything (and certainly all
> servers) during the install. Still, I found a lot of potentially
> dangerous services running. At some point during the install I said NO
> for ipv6. Still, I have the ipv6 kernel module loaded, and my nic has
> an inet6 address. Etc.
Ipv6 is not a daemon or service. What daemons by default are connecting
to the network?
Rahul
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