13 Jul
2012
13 Jul
'12
2:01 a.m.
Jason White wrote:
If I didn't want ssh to listen on non-local interfaces, I wouldn't install the package in the first place.
But we all (well, Russell and I) just agreed that stuff shouldn't listen until explicitly told to! Why should sshd be an exception?
I'm sure there was an implied "where it makes sense" for that agreement though. Why would you install ssh server if you didn't want to use it remotely? I don't think it installs by default on any of the distributions I'm familiar with (which these days is 2!) and it's next to useless without remote access unlike (say) mysql which definitely shouldn't listen on anything but 127.0.0.1 by default. James