On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:33:29PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> > > (medium-priority debconf question, etc.) > > What reason is there to ask the user at all about this? If the user wants > > to map these NT groups to different Unix groups, then it's still > > straightforward to do that, AFAIK. Is there some reason that it's wrong > > (== insecure) to always map these groups by default, even if they'll be > > changed later? > I'd say "mostly to avoid being 'accused' to do things in the back of > our users without warning them". > Also because it might add some complication to our maintainer scripts > in order to first check if there are already existing group mappings, > preserve them, etc, etc. I'm only arguing for setting up group mappings on initial install, not on upgrade - so that's easy to check for in the maintainer scripts. > It's more a general feeling I have that packages shouldn't maybe try > to do too many 'nice' things when installed. Something I haven't been > always thinking but am more and more convinced of as the time goes on. Oh. I'm always in favor of packages doing 'nice' things on install. I just think we need to have a very high bar for what 'nice' is. :-) > The counter argument is that you seem to feel this is acceptable and > that you're generally the conservative person in the team, Steve.... > (/me already laughs out loud imagining that I will point folks to a > mail where I say that vorlon is conservative) I'm already chuckling here, thinking back over some of the ill-fated changes I've introduced in Samba in the past ;) But then, maybe I'm getting more conservative in my old age, too. :-) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
