gnome-user-share (apache) and open ports

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:41:13AM -0600, Santiago Erquicia wrote:

> The original idea of not having a firewall was that there were no open 
> ports by default and if anyone wanted to install apache, for example, 
> he/she had the necessary expertise to protect the system.

The original idea of not having a firewall was that there wasn't a clear
best-of-breed solution appropriate for Ubuntu.  The policy of having no open
ports by default would exist regardless.

> Now, with gnome-user-share, we are going to end up with apache installed 
> (by default?) but usually this is going to be used by "normal people" 
> without knowledge for protecting the system.
> 
> How is this going to done?

The listening policy still stands; if the user wants to share out their
files, they will need to explicitly enable it.

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 - mdz