Fedora default services (was: Re: F15 Feature - convert as many service init files as possible to the native SystemD services)

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:08:49PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> said:
> > On most laptops, however, which are the most common types of system sold
> > today, a firewall is very definitely needed when you're connecting to
> > hotel networks, public wifi access points...
> 
> The only thing you need a firewall by default for is to prevent services
> that are listening on the network from being accessible.  The better
> solution is to stop having services listen on the network by default.
> 
> This was done for sendmail many years ago; why hasn't it been done for
> other things, such as rpcbind (and RPC services), cups, etc.?  These
> daemons should bind to localhost only unless otherwise configured.

Afaik ntpd, sobby and software written in erlang (e.g. ejabberd) does not
support this (completely).

Regards
Till
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