On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:16, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > > For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, > > Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally > > configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; > > Honestly, I think we can get away with something vastly less complex:
I wasn't suggesting that debian should take the Mandrake methodology onboard in a wholesale fashion... I think my boss would take issue with that! ;) > Just don't install network services by default. I don't see any need > for "security levels" or anything like that. Really, just about any > network service is going to require some amount of configuration before > it can be used. And yet most distros and package management systems seem to do so by default...
