What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)

Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by riprowan on Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:24AM (#11883541)

> Since Ubuntu doesn’t come with a firewall enabled by default, your postfix server is listening on all interfaces for mail immediately.

But Ubuntu doesn't come with a postfix server enabled by default, so that's not really a concern, is it?

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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by JdeBP on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:55AM (#11888091)

Ubuntu does, however. Here is its guide:

Here is where it is enabled by default:

And here is where the installation process auto-starts the server:

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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by riprowan on Sunday June 12, 2016 @10:24AM (#11888206)

Well I never. TIL. I've always installed and started it because I assumed it wasn't already running.

Thanks!

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