Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña schrieb: >If I were you (aliban) I would bug rhythmbox. It seems that Bug #349478 got >it to reduce the Depends: on that daemon to a Recommends:, I think it would >be better to have that as Suggests: >Disclaimer: I don't know much about rhythmbox and the relationship of >ahavi-daemon > >I agree with Michael Stone in that the dependecy chain here might be a >problem in the long run. > >Maintainers remember: it's much better to *not* install/activate a network >service than to have a service, even if it's chrooted, or running under lower >privileges (like the ahavi maintainers describe in >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportAvahi) which, BTW, is not that >common. The keyword here is 'exposure'. > > I am sorry, but I am quite new linux and debian at all and you may excuse my question:
why is there no rule to "prompt the user" for all applications that open ports on non-localhost? I guess in most cases these services will be configured afterwards anyway to fit admin's needs. In example if you install apache (I did not do so, maybe it is prompting:) why shouldn't the install script ask what interfaces to bind to? On my 'default' system I would not want any open ports at all :/, do you? Or do you think I am paranoid? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]