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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by geerlingguy on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:05PM (#11881187)
Note that finally, with 16.04, you can block the (ridiculous) auto start behavior of daemons installed via apt using systemd features: https://major.io/2016/05/05/preventing-ubuntu-16-04-starting...

It's always angered me that packages start running before I have a chance to configure them... With some, like MySQL, it means if I want to change certain settings, I also have to clean up some other files before restarting the service or the package will not start. On CentOS/RHEL, this is never an issue.

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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by JdeBP on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:41AM (#11883093)
Masks would be overkill, were the designed mechanism widely available on Ubuntu 15/16. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/779554/how-to-install-apt-pac... .
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