On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:37:21PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
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> But I agree security is not a good argument against enabling it by default.
Sure it is. "Don't enable anything you don't need," is the first
security rule. Everything is turned off by default. If you want it,
enable it.
"Enabled by default" is what made early Linux distributions give
old UNIX hands the willies. It was bad enough that IRIX shipped with
everything turned on and suid root; at least it cost several thousand
dollars. Linux was _free_, and had many of the same problems.
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