On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 07:46:42PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:52:07PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > - Debian should ship a default set of firewall rules. Are we the only > > distro which doesn't do this? I mean a basic ruleset which drops > > incoming, accepts outgoing and accepts related,establised is so easy to > > do... and it would help for all those cases where services are started > > but not yet finally configured/secured by the admin. > > Are all of our users admins that grasp firewalls?
Most likely not, and therefore I agree that with the current state of affairs, enabling a firewall on Debian by default is probably a bad idea. However, it should be possible to create a tool which helps novice users in managing their firewall, and such a tool could be installed by default on at least a Desktop installation. If we go down that route, and if said tool is easy enough to use and understand for the most novice of users, I would absolutely agree that enabling a firewall with this tool on default installations is desirable. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141102112921.ge16...@grep.be
