Daniel Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> voiced:
To: Cooker Mandrake List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:14:14 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: [Cooker] ssh
> > I personally think that it should default to secure, and only go
> > into "insecure" mode if a checkbox or other prompt is chosen for home
> > desktop pc.
>
> Agreed !
>
> > That would give a "best of both worlds" solution... leaving it up to
> the
> > user to decide what is best for him/her, and if they dont know what
> they
> > are doing, by choosing "home workstation" or Home Desktop or
> what-have-
> > you, they are given the current non-ssh installation, but "expert"
> > and "custom" get ssh and disabled (to remote hosts) telnet.
>
> Actually, I think the home users should have it turned on by default
> since *they* are the ones that get r00ted ! Those of us doing server
> or expert installs will also *expect* it.
>
Dan,
I agree, but was trying to find a middle ground between the two POVs...
Side A: we are sysadmins and dont want telnet, but rather SSH should be
installed on all by default.
Side B: What about home users who have accounts with no passwords..
While I think that if you have accounts with no passwords, you get what
you deserve, I can understand the need to support this option for home
standalone machines (understand != agree).
We asked in 7.1 if people wanted to try Xfree 4... why not ask them if
they would like to try OpenSSH in the same manner... and put a blurb in
the bottom help text saying doing so will require passwords, etc etc
etc...
It seems like a happy medium :)
-John
(who needs more coffee to be alive at this time of the morning...)
