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Comment Re:why can we trust systemd? (Score 1) 550

How can it be both monolithic and have many components? How in hell can you compare encryption with binary logs.

"offers only itself as a way to read them.": So that is why the format is fully described in detail?

And what the hell is "it encourages non-kernel systems to rely on it"?

Comment Re:damn (Score 1) 550

Anyone who complains over overcomplexity or security have never ever really tried to understand just how SysVinit works or read it's source to begin with. If anything systemd makes it much less complex (a single unit file in a single place vs tons of links and overcomplex bash scripts all over /etc).

Comment Re:How systemd became Debian's default init system (Score 1) 550

What if someone attacking you by crashing sshd so you cannot ssh to it? And honestly if you are afraid of any of the things that you wrote, then simply disable the restart altogether. It's not like it's mandatory, systemd even has it disabled by default, it has to be enabled in the unit file for each service.

Comment Re:Stay out of our business then..... (Score 1) 993

So you just do not have a clue do you? If you even bothered to do any form of search you would have found out that it works exactly like I wrote. There is no httpd server in the systemd binaries, none in the journald binaries. But in a very specific binary called the journald gateway daemon, which have a single function (i.e expose the local logs via http). If you don't run that daemon (which is the default) then you won't run any http server at all no matter how much you cry about it. And if an attacker could start this daemon to get acccess to your holy log files, then you have other security issues with your set up that is way way worse. But don't let reality get in your way pal.

Comment Re:Stay out of our business then..... (Score 1) 993

The init system is not not a part of it at all. The journald gateway deamon is a separate binary that does one thing and only one thing: it allows http access to the local log files. If the daemon does not run, which it doesn't unless it's manually activated, then it has no impact what so ever. So NO, the init system or even journald does not contain a web server.

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