Why shouldn't these be taken care of? Both Windows and UNIX/Linux programs have had interactive, guided installers, graphical or text-based, for years. Package

Why shouldn't these be taken care of? Both Windows and UNIX/Linux programs have had interactive, guided installers, graphical or text-based, for years. Package managers support post-install scripts. Organizational division-of-responsibility issues are not for applications to solve, but having sane defaults and performing user-supplied configuration is. This could've been handled with: > Do you want to allow MongoDB to be accessible externally? (WARNING: this means ANYONE on the internet can connect. You will be asked to set up a username and password to protect your database. Don't do this if you're unsure or if your organization has to approve access.) > Now that your MongoDB is open to the Internet, choose a username and a password to protect it from intruders.