Re: wish list

[Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@rhodesmill.org>]

Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> writes:

> I guess a good start for a list like this would be to
> compose a wish list of features people would like to
> see in a secure Linux distribution.

Off the top of my head (and some (perhaps all, for all I know) of
these wishes have already appeared elsewhere):

    o	MD5 shadow passwords by default.
    o	Uses postfix by default instead of sendmail.
    o	Uses xinetd by default instead of normal inetd.
    o	Uses sshd as preferred communication mechanism rather than telnetd.
    o	All daemons come turned off by default, until I explicitly
	turn them on.

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Brandon Craig Rhodes                         http://www.rhodesmill.org/brandon
Georgia Tech Information Security Center                brandon@rhodesmill.org
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