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I know there’s loads of forums full of the same question but I must admit that I cannot understand the services that run in a default install of Fedora.

Of course I’m specifically talking about ssh and sendmail. I’ve read plenty of comments theorising on the reason for the sshd daemon running, many talk about Red Hat being mainly installed on headless servers so you need to be able to log in over ssh after the install is complete.

If that’s the reason then that’s all well and good for Red Hat Enterprise Linux but I doubt the same is true for Fedora. Surely the vast majority of Fedora installs are personal computers and laptops where if you need ssh it should be up to you to start the service. Exactly the same is true for sendmail.

It’s been the same with Fedora since I started using it at Fedora Core 4 and it’s something I’ll never understand. At the very least it should be an option in the Anaconda installer if you with to run ssh.