on 1/29/2008 8:00 AM Chris Mauritz spake the following: > Milton Calnek wrote: >> If you don't like the defaults, get anaconda to change them for you. >> Or write a script that you run shortly after install to make the >> changes for you. > > That would be pretty amazing if at the end (or at the beginning) of the > install there was some checkbox that said something to the effect of: > > "Would you like to maintain compatibility with upstream security > defaults or would you like to follow our more sensible recommendations > instead?" > > And if the user chooses the latter, a much more secure default > configuration could be applied. That might go a long way towards > helping non-wizard folks to enjoy some measure of additional protection > by default. Just a thought. > But again, that breaks upstream compatibility. Besides, all of you know that there are people that click "yes" on every dialog box without reading them. I swear that if you added a dialog box that stated their firstborn would be sacrificed to the IT gods, and recorded the answers, you would get a large percentage of "yes" clicks. And most of those would be unintentional. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080129/67e05137/attachment-0005.sig>