Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

John Johansen
2011-10-06T03:14:27Z

On 10/03/2011 09:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 09:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
>>
>> Note that if your laptop allows incoming ssh connections, and you
>> logged into master.kernel.org with ssh forwarding enabled, your laptop
>> may not be safe. So be very, very careful before you assume that your
>> laptop is safe. At least one kernel developer, after he got past the
>> belief, "surely I could have never had my machine be compromised",
>> looked carefully and found rootkits on his machines.
>>
>> - Ted
>
> By the way, I'm now pretty convinced that allowing inbound ssh on
> laptops (which is the default on all the mainline Linux distros as far
> as I know) is seriously broken... laptops get connected to *extremely*
> insecure networks on just way too regular a basis.
>
I can't speak for the other distros but Ubuntu does not enable sshd by
default. The openssh-server package or ssh meta package must be
installed before sshd will be run.