On Friday 20 Nov 2009 22:22:15 Sorin Peste wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Per Jessen
wrote: Sorin Peste wrote: "Because non-power users who wont need sshd can easily ignore it on their own system."
... until one day they turn off their firewall, because they read on some forum that's a likely cause for their programs not connecting. At which point they're not even aware they have some potentially vulnerable network services running. Or do they deserve whatever they get for disabling the firewall?
Shall we take a poll on how many AutoYast users we have here, Sorin?
I'll take a poll on sysadmins with 10+ workstations who DON'T automate in some way, at least workstation (re)install and config, backup, and patch distribution. I promise not to send the results to their bosses ;)
Sorin
It has to be said this is an excellent job of spreading FUD and scaremongering . Who's paying you M$ Corp or maybe even Apple never know they are both suffering Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 23:23 up 13 days 8:49, 3 users, load average: 1.32, 1.28, 1.04