allowing programs to open ports

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 03:18:54 UTC 2015


Hi

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Kevin Kofler  wrote:

> Björn Persson wrote:
> > I bet! I worry that the questions would quickly become annoying. But if
> > ports are going to be blocked by default, then there needs to be some
> > way for non-sysadmin users to open them.
>
> No, why? The ports just need to be closed, period. Non-sysadmin users
> shouldn't be allowed to open any ports.


That won't work in a world where users *are* the sysadmins as well.  Even
in a small business where one has a sysadmin, they aren't focused on
internal issues all that much.  Users are expected to cope up.

Rahul
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