Re: OPIE

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 09:24:43PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 17:37:27 +0100, Matt Kern wrote:
> > Is anyone interested in packaging OPIE tools/daemons for Debian?
> 
> We had OPIE packages in one of the previous releases; presumably, the
> debianisation diffs can be found via http://archive.debian.org/ .

IIRC, they've been packaged twice, but only lasted a single release each
time. 

> I suspect that OTP via PAM is a less intrusive, and possibly more flexible
> way of doing things. 

I agree that packaging an OTP PAM module is more worthwhile at this
point.

> (E.g. force OTP only if the connection attempts
> originates outside the LAN that's considered safe)

Opie does have an option for that, it simply wasn't compiled that way in
the debian package.

Mike Stone