openssh-server in F16ga

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:42 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:17:05PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > On 11/09/2011 06:59 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > > Seems surprising (to me) that it'd be installed, and the port open in
> > > the firewall, but not enabled.
> > 
> >  From my perspective it's quite the oposit as in having it enabled on 
> > the dvd and instantly letting novice end users be vulnerable to ssh 
> > attacks because apparently power users no longer posses the knowledge on 
> > how to enable it via kickstart or otherwize....
> > 
> > Atleast the Gnome Desktop team ( which control their own spin ) took the 
> > smart route for their end user base....
> > 
> Did this hit the Release Notes?  Correct or not, it's pretty big change in
> behaviour if someone was expecting it to either be the same as past releases
> or the same as installing from the DVD.  Release noting it would be greatly
> helpful for people looking to answer exactly the question asked here "Was
> this intentional or is it a bug?"

IIRC, it's not a change. It's been this way for a while. (The bug where
s-c-f claims port 22 is open but in fact it isn't, after a live install,
has also been around for a while.)
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