Bug#404640: Creating random password in postinst

2009-04-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Mike Dornberger wrote: Hi, > chrony from etch (and lenny) has the following in its postinst: They're generating the whole file, not modifying a shipped conffile, that's vastly different :) JB. -- Julien BLACHE | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer|

Bug#404640: Creating random password in postinst (was: Still insecure?)

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Dornberger
Hi, On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:50:34PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Alexander Kurtz wrote: > > How about a simple patch in the postinst file? See attachement. > > Too simple to be policy-compliant :) If you want to do that, you need > to use debconf and follow the best-practices for this job.