Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2525 mails)

[Sorin Peste <neaorine@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorin Peste wrote:
> > Remember we're not talking about power users here.
>
> Actually, I don't remember those being discarded from the target
> audience.

Because power users who might need sshd can easily make it happen on
their own system. Whereas average users don't know any better.

> > For business / education environments, don't you think it's the
> > admin's job to properly configure the workstations?
>
> Certainly, but why should we hinder him in doing that?
> Sorin, like others you appear to be arguing for _keeping_ the silly
> change, whilst you are neglecting to explain _why_ it was done. (I
> understand why you can't, coz' none of the arguments will hold water).

the "standard security doctrine" part was my main argument, with a
side of "you have to open the port anyway, so just enable it then",
and some "if you've got many machines, automate it, just like you
would do with any admin task" sprinkled on top.
Again, the more sensible option to me seems to be the one geared
towards the majority of users who don't know any better.
I have no other arguments to make.

Sorin
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