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.
