Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Richard (MQ) schreef:
> Arvin Schnell wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:28:59PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are thinking about disabling the ssh daemon by default.
> > >
> > > Reason is that it most desktop users do not use it all
> > > and it is just taking away memory for those, and also
> > > presenting an attack surface once the firewall is disabled.
> >
> > Why not combine it with the firewall setting?
> >
> > IIRC there is already the option to open the SSH port in the
> > network setup during installation so simply start sshd when the
> > port is opened there.
>
> +1
>
> Users who use ssh will in general know about the firewall etc. too, 
> others probably shouldn't have it enabled.
>
> Having said that - surely the memory footprint must be fairly small, 
> and ssh security bugs are fairly rare ! ;-)
>
>
> > Or make an extra item in the network setup for SSH just like for
> > VNC (or combine those two).
>
> Combining them makes sense - my argument above applies here too.
As i am not mistaken, this is already so.
As i don't use the firewall, because my Lan is unaccessible when it is 
on, i turn it off when concluding the install.
When i do that, ssh closes.

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