Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:54:14 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... Message-ID: <4B02E346.3070209@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20091117174540.GB19113@thought.org> References: <20091115234930.GA11465@thought.org> <20091116010014.f3ca28de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116070056.GE11539@thought.org> <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116231236.GA15714@thought.org> <20091117160117.12c71262.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091117174540.GB19113@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >>> >>>> By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. >>>> In this case, defaults are used, but: >>>> >>>> % grep sshd /etc/defaults/rc.conf >>>> sshd_enable="NO" # Enable sshd >>>> >>>> As you see, sshd_enable is set to "NO" by default. >>>> >>>> >>> darn, but that would've been that last thing i would have >>> expected... . i dont see any rationale... >>> >> Rationale: Secure by default. Ermm... wait, that was >> a different OS. :-) >> >> At least, there's no telnet enabled by default with >> empty root password... :-) >> >> > > > all right, all right. it might be better to default on the side of > security. but it takes soooo much more to login remote via ssh that > it seems fairly secure to me if it were enabled. ... . > > There is a question during sysinstall: "Would you like to enable ssh login?" Guess you answered "no" there?
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