vsftpd.conf

Stephen J Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Mon Sep 13 17:12:28 UTC 2004


Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 17:38 -0600, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> 
>>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]
> 
> 
> Again, what if the configuration data isn't translated into the user's
> language?  They end up getting some vital system configuration question
> they can't possibly answer?  Why the heck does this *need* to be done at
> install time?  If you are going to make a configuration tool, let the
> user run it them self after install.  

Uhm.. this is what I am talking about with the 'system-setup program'. 
Maybe I was not too clear, but I think you are just looking for a fight. 
   Not going to get one today sorry.



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