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> well, i'm no good at security, but i think "workstation" is mainly
> used for home
> box where sshd is not needed...
Wow, you definately are not good at product marketing either are you
Pixel? :-) No offence intended, just a little humor.
But seriously, why would you even consider "limiting" a product to such
a profitless market segment like "home" users? Why not consider and
target your product towards the SMB and Enterprise segments? For that
you most definately want sshd on both workstations and servers.
I just quit my job as an IT person at one of the large Linux distro's
yesterday and I can assure you emphatically that we demanded sshd on all
workstations. Having to visit a workstation to fix problems with it
sucks.
Even if you are targetting the home market, keep in mind that if any of
my friends have problems with their workstations, I usually just tell
them to put it on the Internet and I ssh into it and fix it.
> and there are other ways of maintaining a box than sshd, like
> linuxconf or
> webmin...
Not for real sysadmins. :-) Seriously though, maybe those tools are
usable, but I would be VERY surprised if they could completely alleviate
the need for a command line shell.
Also, how do you copy files to a workstation without sshd running?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
