On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:27:38AM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 20 November 2009 10:03:10 am Lars Müller wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:19:28AM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/20/2009 8:31 AM, Lars � wrote:
There is no good reason why Joe Doe needs the service ssh enabled.
I thought that was a particularly arrogant statement.
Arrogant? A user new to Linux doesn't need ssh access to a local box. Cause the majority of users don't even know what ssh is. And it is very likely that they even don't want to know it. ;)
The Joe Doe I have in mind is a person new to Linux, needing a text processing system and a web browser. Firefox and OpenOffice is all they need.
Sorry Lars, but the sad truth is those Joe and Jane Doe's are running Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Hehe, I'll ask my Jane.
Their sound and multi-media and web-cam work out of the box. And if they call their geek-friend for help the first thing geeks says to them is apg-get install openssh.
We come here to opensuse have a more complete and secure OS from the start.
Nice to know.
A leasson I recently learned: The majority of users these days don't even use a mail user agent. All they use is a web UI.
And yet Opensuse installs postfix by default?
_Installs_, cause some other binaries or packages require the sendmail interface. This is provided by the 'smtp_daemon' provides of sendmail, postfix, or exim. Maybe there are more packages providing it these days like ssmtp and other small or simple smtp implemntations. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany