John Andersen wrote:
Remind me again why a secure service like ssh is off by default?
I beg because ssh being so widely used is prone to be attacked, and ssh is not the only service that can listen this port (no other should, but who know what a malicious thing can do?) however this can be a real problem. I'm not so experienced as server admin, but have to manage my own hosted server. recently, being in yast, I noticed than the firewall was not started and, stupidly, thought "oups... I forgot it" and clic "start". of course, by default all is closed, so I had no more access to the machine, needed a hard reboot and recovery console... now my firewall is stopped (really unusefull on a single machine) but still the ssh port is said to be open, just in case I'm too dumb :-)) jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org