* Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Note that some packages, directly or indirectly, build-depend on > packages containing daemons that will be started by default if > installed. In that light, a firewall really is required to keep things > safe.
IMO most notably, because many users will hit that: KDE -> famd -> portmapper While I would not judge on portmappers security, it is certainly not a service which most users need to have exposed to the internet, and so it shouldn't be by default. Of course, the proper solution would be to a) do not make fam depend on portmapper or b) alter portmapper to listen for local connections only, neither of both has been implemented for some time now... Sebastian -- PGP-Key: http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/public.key Fingerprint: A46A 753F AEDC 2C01 BE6E F6DB 97E0 3309 9FD6 E3E6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
