Lars Müller wrote:
I think it's quite interesting (read: silly) to do such "optimizations" on one end of the spectrum (single-user PC)
This is not about "single-user". This is about a reasonable default for the current time. Five years ago we've not seen such distributed brute force ssh attacks.
A system not running sshd by default must be primarily intended for an environment where no remote access is required, typically a single-user/-PC environment. I would have opted to close port 22 for external access instead.
when we do e.g. LVM and RAID improvements (something the single-user most probably has little or no need for) on the other end. Is openSUSE slowly developing a severe schizophrenia?
A lot of the features are developed for the SUSE Linux Enterprise products. Should we keep them out of openSUSE to paint a nicer picture?
No, that's not what I was suggesting - it's just weird to compare features such as these: 1) turning off sshd by default is likely to annoy Peter Admin and be ignored by Joe User. 2) adding nice RAID or LVM improvements might please Peter, but will be ignored by Joe. AFAICT, the change to disable sshd has not really achieved an awful lot, except annoy Peter Admin. If you ask me for a suggestion, I would say let's not p... off Peter Admin when trying to please Joe User. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org