Default services enabled

[Steve Grubb]

On Sunday, August 21, 2011 05:22:17 PM Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 08/21/2011 05:09 PM, Steve Clark wrote:
> >>> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
> >>> 
> >>> Read the part about "Parallelizing Socket Services". It explains why
> >>> socket actviation is interesting,
> >> 
> >> I find a secure OS interesting. Bootup speed does not matter much to me.
> > 
> > Obviously a lot on this list value boot up speed over security!
> 
>  Obviously, anyone who values security over bootup speed has the right
> values.
> 
>  I share those values as should everyone who is clueful :-)

The thing I think about is that is if the solution for parallelizing boot is an xinetd 
replacement, was there any thought to just patching xinetd? As a former upstream 
maintainer (and former because its not actively developed nor passed along to another 
caretaker), we would have taken patches that added AF_UNIX or dbus activation if we 
understood the need. As proof, Rob added rendezvous support before it went into its 
unmaintained state. Imagine an updated xinetd + upstart. Would that not solve the 
problems, cause less turmoil, and be more secure?

-Steve