vsftpd.conf

Stephen J Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Sat Sep 11 23:38:05 UTC 2004


Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 00:18 +0100, Paul Trippett wrote:
> 
>>Why not take a BSD approach and give them the option when installing the
>>package, say for example...
>>
>># rpm -i vsftp....rpm
>>Would you like to enable Anonymous logins? (y/n) [N] 
>>Would you like to enable Local user Logins? (y/n) [N]
> 
> 
> Because RPMs are absolutely never ever supposed to ask questions.
> 
> - What if the RPM is being installed non-interactively?
> - What if the RPM is being installed with a GUI tool?
> - What if the user doesn't understand English?
> 
> And then you get into the general usability problems - are the question
> phrased properly?  Is "Y/N" an appropriate prompt?  etc.
> 

Each rpm could then drop a scriptlet into a directory that gui would 
then be able to run to set things up for it.

/etc/system-setup/
                   vsftpd.py
                   httpd.py
                   samba.py
                   kill_my_harddrive.py

And then the system-setup program would display the questions, get the 
answers... and possibly be able to bring the system into at least a 
bare-bones configuration.

Reset to original configuration [Yes] [No] [Help]



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