From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 17:45:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1CF106566B for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806C38FC1D for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAHHjZ49037398; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091117160117.12c71262.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:49 -0000 On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline 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. ... . > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php