Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Detlef Johanning
At 16:14 29.09.2003, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: There is another common case I'd not mentioned. Since I do a lot of development work, I tend to have a *lot* of servers installed on my laptop, ready to run, but only when I need them. I do this

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:51:45AM +0200, Detlef Johanning wrote: My business is just like yours. Since I've always managed the /etc/rc?.d directories by hand the [trivial] solutuin for me is to remove the symlinks the install scripts create. You can also use update-rc or whatever Debian

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:43AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: I would consider implementing an iptables firewall (whether it be shorewall or home brewed (if you know what you are doing)) to be a bare minimum for best-practices. Unfortunately (unlike RedHat and Mandrake) Debian offers

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:30:44PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Wrong. The kernel shipped in Debian does provide firewalling capabilities. Also, the iptables package is part of the default installation (Priority: standard) No, right. There is no configuration provided, making

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Detlef Johanning
At 16:14 29.09.2003, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: There is another common case I'd not mentioned. Since I do a lot of development work, I tend to have a *lot* of servers installed on my laptop, ready to run, but only when I need them. I do this

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:51:45AM +0200, Detlef Johanning wrote: My business is just like yours. Since I've always managed the /etc/rc?.d directories by hand the [trivial] solutuin for me is to remove the symlinks the install scripts create. You can also use update-rc or whatever Debian

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:43AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: I would consider implementing an iptables firewall (whether it be shorewall or home brewed (if you know what you are doing)) to be a bare minimum for best-practices. Unfortunately (unlike RedHat and Mandrake) Debian offers

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:30:44PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Wrong. The kernel shipped in Debian does provide firewalling capabilities. Also, the iptables package is part of the default installation (Priority: standard) No, right. There is no configuration provided, making

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-29 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:43AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 at 12:53:26PM -0400, Dale Amon wrote: Precisely. One cannot just install the packages and services one wants. One must step outside the package system to fix the problem, and continue to do so

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-29 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 at 12:53:26PM -0400, Dale Amon wrote: Precisely. One cannot just install the packages and services one wants. One must step outside the package system to fix the problem, and continue to do so thereafter in the future. A

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-29 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:43AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 at 12:53:26PM -0400, Dale Amon wrote: Precisely. One cannot just install the packages and services one wants. One must step outside the package system to fix the problem, and continue to do so

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-29 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: There is another common case I'd not mentioned. Since I do a lot of development work, I tend to have a *lot* of servers installed on my laptop, ready to run, but only when I need them. I do this entirely manually at present. I'd like

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:29:45AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: What is so difficult? No web server is installed by default. If you don't want one, don't install one. Dependencies. Exactly. Please, please make freshly

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-28 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 at 12:53:26PM -0400, Dale Amon wrote: Precisely. One cannot just install the packages and services one wants. One must step outside the package system to fix the problem, and continue to do so thereafter in the future. A

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:29:45AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: What is so difficult? No web server is installed by default. If you don't want one, don't install one. Dependencies. Exactly. Please, please make freshly

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: We can see it the other way: why bother the user with the details of running a service if the clued ones can easily stop or disable the installed daemons until they are configured properly? We scare because we care. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat -

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-27 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
Hi *, Matt Zimmerman crivait : Having a web server listen on a particular interface should not be controlled by whether or not a particular package is installed. It should be controlled by the configuration of the package. What about giving this configuration a default value taken

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: We can see it the other way: why bother the user with the details of running a service if the clued ones can easily stop or disable the installed daemons until they are configured properly? We scare because we care. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat -

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: It can be damnably difficult to dump the web server... I've ended up downloading dhttpd and then removing links or changing the init.d/dhttpd file name. What is so

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:33:00AM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: I like that idea, and it sounds fairly simple - packages just check /etc/secure_level (or something similar) and do the right thing. The tricky part is convincing every package maintainer to adopt it ;) Well, Mandrake packages IIRC

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:05:13PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: That's been the policy, but's it's stupid nowadays. It's too easy to pull in an unexpected service when installing something with all the tasks and dependency chains. There needs to be a mode where a user can say, I don't want to

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:29:45AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: What is so difficult? No web server is installed by default. If you don't want one, don't install one. Dependencies. I've had the same annoying experience as

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Ted Cabeen
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default.

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It can be damnably difficult to dump the web server... I've ended up downloading dhttpd and then removing links or changing the init.d/dhttpd file name. What is so difficult?

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Where does one go from here? If you only want the web server for reading documentation, reconfigure the web server to only listen on localhost. Precisely. One

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Where does one go from here? If you only want the web server for reading documentation, reconfigure

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such would go a long way toward preventing accidental vulnerability exposure. On the other hand this pretty much sounds like

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: He wants the service, he just wants it only for local use. That is not something that should be handled at the package level. Why not? The boot-floppies already set the locale for the whole system. I think it would be nice if

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:37:22PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: He wants the service, he just wants it only for local use. That is not something that should be handled at the package level. Why not? The boot-floppies already

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: At high security levels, any new services that get installed (from RPMs) are only allowed from localhost or even, IIRC, services may not even be started by default, neither post-install nor on reboot: you have to set them up

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface)

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: The base installation is partially decided by the priority of the package ('required', 'important', 'standard', 'optional', 'extra'). The archive maintainers have the final word (that is the 'ftp.debian.org'

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: It can be damnably difficult to dump the web server... I've ended up downloading dhttpd and then removing links or changing the init.d/dhttpd file name. What is so

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:33:00AM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: I like that idea, and it sounds fairly simple - packages just check /etc/secure_level (or something similar) and do the right thing. The tricky part is convincing every package maintainer to adopt it ;) Well, Mandrake packages IIRC

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:29:45AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: What is so difficult? No web server is installed by default. If you don't want one, don't install one. Dependencies. I've had the same annoying experience as

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Ted Cabeen
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default.

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It can be damnably difficult to dump the web server... I've ended up downloading dhttpd and then removing links or changing the init.d/dhttpd file name. What is so difficult?

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Where does one go from here? If you only want the web server for reading documentation, reconfigure the web server to only listen on localhost. Precisely. One

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Where does one go from here? If you only want the web server for reading documentation, reconfigure

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: He wants the service, he just wants it only for local use. That is not something that should be handled at the package level. Why not? The boot-floppies already set the locale for the whole system. I think it would be nice if

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:37:22PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: He wants the service, he just wants it only for local use. That is not something that should be handled at the package level. Why not? The boot-floppies already

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-26 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: At high security levels, any new services that get installed (from RPMs) are only allowed from localhost or even, IIRC, services may not even be started by default, neither post-install nor on reboot: you have to set them up

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Stefano Salvi
At 22.16 24/09/03 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: How 'bout this idea: We can create a user-definable policy as to whether or not newly installed packages that provide init scripts actually have these init scripts run during their postinst. So, we have a file in /etc/defaults or something that is

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Guido Lorenzutti
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:19, Stefano Salvi wrote: At 22.16 24/09/03 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: How 'bout this idea: We can create a user-definable policy as to whether or not newly installed packages that provide init scripts actually have these init scripts run during their postinst.

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: What about a package like the harden-* package, but one that conflicts with packages that are pointless for a client/desktop system? Unless such a package is part of the standard installation, it's really of no use. The

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: I haven't done more then look at the screen shots for it, but the personal firewall (eg: iptables frontend) that comes with RH9 looks to be default deny for most incoming traffic while providing a nice (read: graphical and

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Stefano Salvi wrote: I think thisi is not wise: Only because you misunderstand my idea. - Why I must have services installed that I cannot use (are not started by default)? I didn't say anything about not starting by default. I said that they would

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Siegbert Baude
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña schrieb: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface) would be nice, too. A mail

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: The compromise in Debian has always been that a service that gets installed will be executed in a minimum configuration, if you don't want it, don't install it or remove it. That's been the policy, but's it's stupid

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface)

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: The base installation is partially decided by the priority of the package ('required', 'important', 'standard', 'optional', 'extra'). The archive maintainers have the final word (that is the 'ftp.debian.org'

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Lydick
Agreed. The X maintainers (as one example) started doing that a while back. I run exim and a few other services like this (manually configured, sadly). On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:04, Florian Weimer wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Lydick
I like that idea, and it sounds fairly simple - packages just check /etc/secure_level (or something similar) and do the right thing. The tricky part is convincing every package maintainer to adopt it ;) There are some hardening packages available, but I haven't had a chance to play with them yet.

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Lydick
I haven't done more then look at the screen shots for it, but the personal firewall (eg: iptables frontend) that comes with RH9 looks to be default deny for most incoming traffic while providing a nice (read: graphical and straightforward) way to punch essential holes through it as needed. (and

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Stefano Salvi
At 22.16 24/09/03 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: How 'bout this idea: We can create a user-definable policy as to whether or not newly installed packages that provide init scripts actually have these init scripts run during their postinst. So, we have a file in /etc/defaults or something that

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Guido Lorenzutti
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:19, Stefano Salvi wrote: At 22.16 24/09/03 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: How 'bout this idea: We can create a user-definable policy as to whether or not newly installed packages that provide init scripts actually have these init scripts run during their postinst.

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: What about a package like the harden-* package, but one that conflicts with packages that are pointless for a client/desktop system? Unless such a package is part of the standard installation, it's really of no use. The

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Stefano Salvi wrote: I think thisi is not wise: Only because you misunderstand my idea. - Why I must have services installed that I cannot use (are not started by default)? I didn't say anything about not starting by default. I said that they would

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Siegbert Baude
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña schrieb: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface) would be nice, too. A

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: The compromise in Debian has always been that a service that gets installed will be executed in a minimum configuration, if you don't want it, don't install it or remove it. That's been the policy, but's it's

services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Lydick
Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which isn't enabled by default) Is this something that needs to be taken

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface) would be nice, too. It can be damnably difficult to dump the web

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Wray
For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; At high security levels, any new services that get installed (from RPMs) are only allowed from

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; Honestly, I think we can get away

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:16:41PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Basically, I think that security levels don't gain you anything over don't install the package. Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Wray
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:16, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such would go a long way toward preventing accidental vulnerability exposure. Well, remember that the

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:39:32PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Well, remember that the scope of this discussion is the default Debian installation. Except, what is default? If you install a workstation task should you assume that you'll get open ports? (As the task packages pull in

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Lydick
Agreed. The X maintainers (as one example) started doing that a while back. I run exim and a few other services like this (manually configured, sadly). On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:04, Florian Weimer wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to

services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Lydick
Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which isn't enabled by default) Is this something that needs to be taken

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the loopback interface) would be nice, too. It can be damnably difficult to dump the web

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Wray
For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; At high security levels, any new services that get installed (from RPMs) are only allowed from

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; Honestly, I think we can get away

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such would go a long way toward preventing accidental vulnerability exposure. Well, remember that the

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:39:32PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Well, remember that the scope of this discussion is the default Debian installation. Except, what is default? If you install a workstation task should you assume that you'll get open ports? (As the task packages pull in

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:52:07PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Except, what is default? If you install a workstation task should you assume that you'll get open ports? (As the task packages pull in dependencies, etc.) I think it makes more sense to provide a safety net then to try to predict

RE: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Jones, Steven
@lists.debian.org Subject: services installed and running out of the box Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs -- which