Re: Flushing the slink question cache
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink
> distribution:
Well, i'll answer the ones i can figure out...
> 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown,
> while I often find a need for it in many environments: is there
> another way (i.e. "The Debian Right Way") to do it?
Well, anyone who has access to the console can shutdown with the
Ctrl-Alt-Del, if you add their names to /etc/shutdown.allow (or possibly
anyone, depends if shutdown has the -a option in inittab)
If you wanted to make a shutdown group, i guess you _could_ chmod the
shutdown binary to 550, owned by root.shutdown, and make it suid root? Not
sure of the security implications here, though.
> 3) make-kpkg rebuilds all of the kernel after every single change: if
> I just compiled a kernel and wanted to add, say, a module,
> everything gets recompiled instead of just the few required files:
> is there a clean way to allow this? Can I just set do_clean := NO in
> debian/rules?
Looks like do_clean := NO will do it for you.
> 6) SSH came with unencrypted communcation disabled at compile time; I
> run a network in a secure environment and want to use ssh for its
> cryptographical authentication, but allow it to operate unencrypted
> when connecting to local hosts, since there's no risk of network
> snooping and I want to avoid unnecessary computation. Couldn't the
> option be disallowed by default in a system wide configuration file
> instead of compile time? This isn't an important issue, however,
> because one can suppose that if I'm smart enough to tell when an
> environment is secure, then I'm smart enough to download the source
> package and recompile it. I just wanted to point it out.
Couldn't you just plain telnet if the connection is secure?
> 8) I've never been able to use the multi_cd access method of dselect:
> I always happen to see only the contents of the first cd, while with
> apt I need every cd mounted to see them both. For the former, I know
> it's my fault, for the latter I understood I have to wait for potato
> to be able to use apt with multiple cd: am I right? And for
> multi_cd, what's the right way of operation? I have never been asked
> for the second CD.
You don't have to wait for potato, i hear netgod has slink-ized debs of
the latest apt.
As for using CDs, i can't help because i've done everything over the net,
even the initial install...
> 10) Debian is a beautiful thing.
I agree, although that's technically not a question... ;)
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