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... ;)
