Installing Citadel: a nuke to cook bacon

[Locke2053]

I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 as a fileserver (with software RAID and Samba). Setup was fine, EXCEPT that installing mdadm (for the RAID) also installed a "groupware" server called Citadel.

As a result, my server ended up with a slew of open ports and services (IMAP, POP3, etc.) when all I wanted was a working RAID. This is like using a nuke to cook bacon (mmm.... bacon!).

The vast majority of Ubuntu users don't want the overhead and security risk exposure that comes with running a "groupware" server. The default MTA should be changed to something extremely lightweight, and installing an MTA for packages like mdadm should be optional, not recommended.

Cut the bloat and security problems. K.I.S.S.!

[farse]

Hi, I'm fumbling my way thru this trying to setup an array (with no idea what I'm doing), and just got confused by the citadel install.

I hit OK then tried to cancel it, but it seemed to put me back into its install.

How do I remove it and close the ports?

thanks in advance for any assistance,
far

[Locke2053]

Farse, I just did "apt-get remove citadel-server" or something along those lines. You could also search for citadel in synaptic and uncheck everything which is listed as installed.

[FuturePilot]

I think you hit a side effect of this bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/synaptic/+bug/154349
All the Citadel stuff seems to be marked as "Recommended" to mdadm.

[Bachstelze]

It was about time someone spoke up about this. :D

Agreed 100%.