Local users get to play root?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 15:50:35 UTC 2009


Benny Amorsen (benny+usenet at amorsen.dk) said: 
> > If there are pkgs which run daemons which are defaulting to ON when
> > installed or on next reboot - then we should be auditing those pkgs.
> > Last I checked we default to OFF and that should continue to be the
> > case.
> 
> Is there a blanket prohibition on daemons defaulting to ON or are some
> (presumably considered vital) daemons exempt? I ask because cronie
> defaults to ON.

It's not a blanket prohibition. (See also opensshd, rsyslog, etc.)

Bill




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