vsftpd.conf

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sun Sep 12 11:15:52 UTC 2004


Sean Middleditch schrieb:

>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.
>
>Better to offer a nice GUI configuration utility and just let admins run
>it after the installation, or just edit the .conf file if they're of the
>mind.
>
>
>  
>
Nobody set up a ftp server and leave the default config, so it doesn't 
really matter if anonymous logins are on by default or not.





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