Default Fedora installation suffers from egregious configuration flaw

[aragonx at dcsnow.com]

> Or simply have a page asking the user whether or not to enable ssh? 
I
> can't recall off the top of my head, but I believe there is a
screen
> where you ask if you want the firewall enabled, right? 
Why not have a
> very obvious checkbox: "[ ] Enable ssh at
boot" and if the user checks
> it off, set the firewall to
allow ssh and turn ssh on.  If the user does
> _not_ check it off
(aka they are sitting back and saying "what is this
> ssh
thing they speak of?") then have the firewall block port 22 and
> chkconfig ssh off.

Isn't that only part of the
solution?  Why would we ever need to have PermitRootLogin to
true?  My memory is a little rusty but I'm pretty sure the install
forces the creation of a user account.  

I've never done a
headless install so I know nothing about how that works.  However, we
shouldn't let a minority of installations compromise the security of the
majority.  As someone has already pointed out, can't they have a
different spin to allow whatever they might need?

Are there any
other services that are listening by default and allowed through the
firewall?  I believe there should be none of either.  However, I
have been called paranoid in the past.  :)

---
Will
Y>

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