A Topic that needs to be discussed on next the QA meeting..

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:19:28PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Johann B. Gudmundsson <johannbg at hi.is> wrote:
> > See bugs
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437811
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136289
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=147557
> >
> >  In my books this fails QA bigtime and poses a MAJOR security risk for
> >  the end user(s).
> 
> Your book is not everyone's, nor probably even the majority of
> people's.  I for one use sshd on *every* machine that I own (yes, I
> even login to my desktop remotely - that's how I IRC).


As a simple end user, who also uses RH and CentOS professionally, my
very subjective impression is that the average Fedora/RH/CentOS user
dislikes being treated as if they were stupid. 

I care less about sshd being on then the 12-15 services I have to shut
off at first boot.  Catering to newcomers is a good thing, to a point,
but as the saying goes, you can't make anything idiot proof, nature will
build a better idiot. 

What might be a better way of doing it, (I'm saying this with NO conception
of how easy or difficult it would be to implement) might be to, during
installation, be more like say, FreeBSD, which asks do you want this
service to run, do you want that service to run, etc.  

As it is, I usually have to shut off 12-15 services that run by default
on first boot.    


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