> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM, David Parsley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I guess I'll file a bug on this, and see if I get a WONTFIX.
>
> For those of you who followed this thread, I did indeed file a bug,
> and here's what I got:
> Bug report (shortened):
>  When I specify "firewall --enabled" in a kickstart file, ssh is allowed
even
> without specifying "firewall --enabled --ssh".
>
> Closed as NOTABUG:
> --- Comment #1 from Chris Lumens <[email protected]>  2009-02-12
> 10:56:56 EDT ---
> Right, this is by design.  The reason being that for a lot of the
enterprise
> customers, the only way to get into the machine after installation is via
ssh.
> We don't want to lock people out of fresh installs.  This is especially
the
> case on s390 and similarly unusual architectures.  It is perhaps a little
> unexpected, but we're definitely doing this for a reason.
>

>
> ----
> Stuff like this has come up before, where RH does something to cater
> to the majority of their customers, and the more technical folks on
> this list think it's just crazy.  IMO, it's just another case of
> that, and I have a great enough appreciation of Red Hat that I can
> pretty readily overlook this kind of thing.  *shrug*

Thats a jacked up response.  At the very least they should change the
documentation AND add a --no-ssh option.  Mind if I ask what the bug # was?

-greg


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