openssh loads sshd?

[Dan Ports]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:40:31PM -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> Yep. Maybe we should re-word the message. It might make sense to have a different message for anything that is going to run a local server vs. anything that is going to run a remotely accessible service (although something like postgres could be either depending on the configuration). In any event, it should be clear that running 'port load' will cause something to run that could be a security concern for the end-user.

I think this could be a useful distinction to make. It might even be
reasonable to auto-load the plists for local servers, while it's
probably not for remotely-accessible ones.

The first example that comes to mind for me is dbus, a local daemon
without which many ports will fail with a cryptic error message. (I
think I've mentioned this before.)

Not sure offhand if auto-loading local daemons is reasonable in all or
even most other cases -- I'd want to look into what the other examples
are (and, alas, don't have the time to do so.)

Dan

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