Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:17:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@compgeek.com> To: "Jimmy Firewire" <trigonometric@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA/DSA Host key generation didn't happen Message-ID: <50687.192.168.1.10.1076033831.squirrel@www.noacks.org> In-Reply-To: <01e701c3ec28$71b61070$0601a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> References: <00d901c3ec11$5a600ff0$0601a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE><20040205183346.GA18731@xor.obsecurity.org><01a201c3ec25$9a7156d0$0601a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE><20040205202914.GA25270@xor.obsecurity.org> <01e701c3ec28$71b61070$0601a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE>
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Jimmy Firewire wrote: > OK, I was being completely stupid. sshd wasn't enabled, I was just so u= sed > to it being enabled by default. I think it's a good idea that it is not > enabled by default however.But why take out sshd and not sendmail? Sure= ly > sendmail is more likely to be a problem than sshd? By default sendmail only accepts messages from the localhost (sendmail_enable=3D"NO" but sendmail_submit_enable=3D"YES"). The idea is= to have no "public" services running unless you specfically enable them -- this makes for a very secure default install. Jon Noack
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