On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Leon Towns-von Stauber wrote: > On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>> modern desktop distros are pretty locked down and don't have lots of >>> ports >>> open to the network the way they used to be a few years ago. >> >> Hopefully you're just talking about modern linux desktop distros. Cuz >> windows and osx are pretty loose about opening things up to the >> network. I >> don't know any OS with worse security than OSX. I'll qualify that >> by saying >> by default, OSX has no firewall enabled at all, and bonjour happily >> broadcasts to everyone, "Bonjour, everybody! Here's a list of what >> services >> I'm running..." > > And what services would those be? If Mac OS X is "pretty loose about > opening things up to the network", can you tell me which network > services are running on an out-of-the-box OS X install? And how that > compares to other OS installs? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leon Towns-von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ > "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Inquiring minds want to know. I don't run OS X as a server, per se, but I do have several OS X boxes and I try to keep battened down... -Pete _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
