Andrea Monaco wrote: > > I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects > to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it. > > I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic > security updates. Any other? Is there a manual page that lists all of > them?
Neither one of those is automatic. Someone with root privileges needs to install a package like apticron to get that. I believe, but have not confirmed: if you install a base Debian stable system, no extra packages, it will not initiate any connection without user action. An interface configured to use DHCP would ask for a new one on lease expiration. -dsr-
