Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-21 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
You mean the Windows warning "Your system is not protected"? How mature shouldone be to know what it means to use the internet? Where this message should come from? The last thing I want is a Windows like warning. I expected more like a line in the Installation manual warning about the

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-21 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi Roberto, Blocking incoming and forwarded traffic would probably not be surprising to many people. However, blocking outgoint traffic would be exceedingly confusing to many people. Yep. Totally agreed. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/security.en.html Thanks. While there

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-21 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi Dan, The basic reason is this: it makes sense. Let's suppose Debian installs a basic firewall by default. How basic? Let's say: - outbound: permit - forward: deny - inbound: accept NTP, DHCP, DNS, and any TCP packet which is a response to an outbound packet Now,

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-21 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi Pablo, On 21/09/18 9:50 PM, Pablo Álvarez Córdoba wrote: I do not know, but: - By default there are no services listening (except in 127.0.0.1) - A server is usually behind a router/firewall - It is better that each user configure their system as they want, instead of having default

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi Roberto, On Friday 21 September 2018 08:51 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:34:50AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Hi, I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard Debian installation allows all 3 types of traffics especially incoming by default. What

Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi, I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard Debian installation allows all 3 types of traffics especially incoming by default. I know I can easily use iptables to tighten the rules but I wanted to know the reasons behind the choice of this default behaviour and if it

Chromium title bar does not have minimize button under Xfce

2018-09-05 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi, I installed Stretch today with Xfce and I found that minimize/maximize buttons are missing from Chromium title bar. I tried changing the style from classic to gtk but it did not make any difference. This problem is not there in Buster. Is there any setting that I can change to bring the

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:29 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 09:42:31AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that the I

Re: Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-25 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
On Saturday 25 August 2018 01:17 PM, Dekks Herton wrote: Subhadip Ghosh writes: Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that the I have a swap partition with priority set to -2

Swap priority in Debian

2018-08-24 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi, I am a Debian testing user. Recently I am experiencing freezing on my Debian system intermittently and during troubleshooting the same, I found out that the I have a swap partition with priority set to -2. But according to the below manpage:

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-20 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
a look at the 'How to customize starting Xfce' section at the below link: https://wiki.xfce.org/tips Thank you for sharing it with me. Thanks, Subhadip On Tuesday 20 March 2018 09:05 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 20/03/18 16:13, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Hi Ben, Under XFCE, I have ~/.config

Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-19 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
sense for me to go this route. Can you tell me where I can read more about this file preferably in the context of Xfce? Thanks, Subhadip On Tuesday 20 March 2018 03:23 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 20/03/18 07:59, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: While it was very informative, it was not evident from

Ideal place to set environment variables

2018-03-19 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi, I went through the below link: https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables While it was very informative, it was not evident from it that what the standard or preferred place is for setting an environment variable if I want it to be available from both graphical applications as well as