On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
and then comes the default firewall on F21 workstation with all
ports > 1024 open because things "have to work out of the box"
Yes,
this is the reason why I'm asking. If there was a restrictive
firewall by default, this would not be an issue.
Am 22.02.2015 um 19:46 schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky:
>Yes, I would think:
>
>a) all services should be disabled and their ports closed by default, and
>b) the documentation should describe how to enable the service and
>open the ports
It's not really clear what you mean by your answer. Does "yes" mean
that this *should* be allowed? Also please note that the service in
question is disabled by default, and requires a 'systemctl start' to
start. Is this enough?
Zbyszek
>On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
><zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
>>Are Fedora packages allowed to have a default configuration in which
>>the service accepts commands from the network in the default
>>configuration?
>>
>>The daemon is not enabled by default, so the administrator has to do a
>>systemctl enable/start first. This means that just installing the
>>package does not create a problem, and an explicit admin action is
>>necessary for the daemon to start listening. Nevertheless, I'm still
>>worried that people will start the service to try it out without
>>reading the fine print and will be vulnerable to attack. I would think
>>that the Packaging Guidelines cover this, but I don't think they do.