søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 13.15 skrev dragoran: > 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. > ... exept those noobs who just hits "install everything" (which amounts to 50% of n00bs comming straight from the bare-bones windows world). There should be a "install everything, exept servers" option in anaconda... BTW asking questions during install caused me a lot of trouble when macromedia flash plugin did this - i was rolling it out to a number of machines using admin-script (www.solution-forge.net/source/unprotected) (the protected folder is empty ;) ). Thank you dag for providing a no-questions-asked rpm. But if nobody installs a ftpd without confing it, what bad would it do to disable logins?
