Re: breaking up base-config
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:51:50PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> > > user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> > > if Ben is willing. After that I'd be happy to unload the apt setup
> > > stuff, and the rest of the list.
> > >
> >
> > I'll get working on this between now and next week.
>
> I can send you the templates (including translations) base-config uses
> now, and I could even rip out the relevant code and give you a .config
> script that might sorta work if that would help.
>
> The annoying thing about the password prompting is that if you do it
> cleanly and prompt for the passwords in the config script, then set them
> in the postinst, there is a window where debconf writes them to disk. So
> base-config does it all in the config script, and makes sure they are
> never written out. Which is ugly. I don't know how you want to handle
> that. Another option would be to prompt for the passwords in the
> postinst.
Sure, send them over.
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