KDE spin firewall

[Richard Z]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 11:14:35PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard Z wrote:
> > How is the KDE spin handling this? Does it inherit all the settings
> > from "workstation"? Will it develop its own default firewall policy?
> 
> We inherit the distro-wide "non-product" defaults, which are NOT the same as 
> the "Workstation" defaults. Those "non-product" defaults that we also ship 
> on the KDE Spin are the same as in previous releases: only mDNS is open for 
> incoming connections by default. And of course DHCP, including DHCPv6. (On 
> non-live spins also sshd (incoming SSH), but that gets disabled on the live 
> images, as in the past.) Outgoing ports are all open by default, as they 
> have always been. We do NOT open thousands of incoming ports by default as 
> the GNOME "Workstation" "Product" spin does.

thanks for the clarification, I am glad KDE has sane defaults.

Richard

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