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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> If I don't run telnetd sshd etc is there any security risk?

Any security risk?  I don't think it's possible to 
be 100% secure on any system.  However, your risk
of remote attack will be very small when you run 
no network daemons.  Remember though,  X does open 
a port (try running nmap on your ports when X is up)
and I am not confident that there isn't some feature 
in Opera (for example) that couldn't be harnessed by
an attacker.  For that reason, I do not go online as
root.  

Cheers,
Steven