On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:30:45AM -0500, Francois Gurin wrote: > Minimun hassle/inconvenience is mutually exclusive of minimum harm. > Looking at the example set forth by some of the other distributions > (and more than a few operating systems), the reduced hassle of > installation and administration is traded for security (which I hope > most people will agree is harmful).
this is a load of crap. enabling daemons by default is not a security problem. if a particular daemon is a security problem then it should be fixed or dropped from the distribution. if the default configuration of a daemon is a security problem then that config should be fixed or the package dropped from the distribution. craig -- craig sanders
