Re: SSH on by default? (Was: too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd)

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:11 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
> mån 2007-03-19 klockan 15:21 +0530 skrev Rahul Sundaram:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Been fiddling with a installation of Fedora 7 Test 2 from the Live CD 
> > and it still enables way too may daemons by default.
> 
> Oh, is the SSH server still enabled by default (if you install the
> openssh-server package)?
> 
> Because if it is, pretty pretty please disable it!
> 
> People don't use good passwords and they don't realize that their
> password can be used remotely. Giving millions of people an sshd they
> don't know or care about is a recipe for zombie machines and bad
> security reputation.

So I think you mean "disable password auth by default".

- ajax