Jimmy Firewire wrote: > OK, I was being completely stupid. sshd wasn't enabled, I was just so used > to it being enabled by default. I think it's a good idea that it is not > enabled by default however.But why take out sshd and not sendmail? Surely > sendmail is more likely to be a problem than sshd? By default sendmail only accepts messages from the localhost (sendmail_enable="NO" but sendmail_submit_enable="YES"). The idea is to have no "public" services running unless you specfically enable them -- this makes for a very secure default install. Jon NoackReceived on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 17:17:17 UTC
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