-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-30 at 16:44 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The default was the other way round some releases ago. Many people complained about this change at the time, but the decission was made and kept :-(
(they said something about home users not needing this. How about remote maintenance of home users, for instance? Sigh.)
I think the point is that you should not have open network services by default. You should have to explicitly open a weakness in your defences.
That's true, but there are many ways to see things :-) Like not being able to help somebody remotely because there is no remote access, and he doesn't know how to do it over the phone. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlF/7CcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XpgwCfSjgE6if0CtjyL3lLwvMDoqiV xHYAn2upIl6UDR1XwFy+BMcXqt/+kdHf =HOc/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org