Noticed this as well. I saw the iscsid daemon running on my systems, but found out that these were installed by default.
root@sat01:~# apt remove open-iscsi Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.4.0-62 linux-headers-4.4.0-62-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-63 linux-headers-4.4.0-63-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-64 linux-headers-4.4.0-64-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-66 linux-headers-4.4.0-66-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-70 linux-headers-4.4.0-70-generic Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: open-iscsi ubuntu-server This should be modified that open-iscsi is not installed by default -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630946 Title: ubuntu-server depends on open-iscsi and runs iscsid Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: ubuntu-server has a hard dependency on open-iscsi, which means there is a daemon running (iscsid), and the package cannot be removed. All unnecessary daemons are a cause of concern when auditing a system. Propose moving this to "Recommends" instead, which currently has: Recommends: lxd, snapd ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-server 1.361 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 6 10:43:04 2016 Ec2AMI: ami-c06b1eb3 Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown) Ec2AvailabilityZone: eu-west-1a Ec2InstanceType: t2.medium Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1630946/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
