On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 you wrote:
No problem to do this for somebody who knows Linux well. But even userers who are using Linux now for more than 2 years do not know a lot about the interns and the relatet security-risks. 99% of them do not know "Know Your Enemy" and 99% of them use some "Standard-Installation".
Absolutely true.
And they arenŽt that able to edit conf and rc scripts.
They don't need to. It's an option in yast: edit configuration file. There you can decide if you want to start a daemon or not. By default, the most of them is enabled - that's a problem if you are connected to the internet permanently. In that case your sysadmin should configure the box. For home users I think it would be secure enough to disable inetd.
(BTW: for nscd there seems to be no manpage/documentation. And I do not remember beeing asked at installation if I want to install nscd or not.)
ARGH! What are you doing, SuSE?
Hartmut
Martin