On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:00:57 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> It's the *default* configuration state, unless you purposely changed
>>> it.
>>
>> SO, if I was to provide you with a Linux distro that had ftpd and sshd
>> installed by default, and allowed remote root logins, would you concede
>> the point?
> 
> It's news to me that any distro actually does this. But sure, then I
> could concede that Windows and Linux both make it equally trivial.

openSUSE includes ftpd and sshd by default, though I don't recall now if 
the firewall is open by default or if the services are enabled by default.

openssh's manpage says that "PermitRootLogin" defaults to yes, which 
means root can login by default.

Jim

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