Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-15 Thread nick black
Sam Hartman left as an exercise for the reader: > Yes, absolutely. > I am familiar with nis/PAM/shadow/LDAP, have deployed NIS (although not > nisplus), and have been around long enough to understand the issues. > > It is absolutely reasonable to expect people who need to do so to > unshadow their

Translation of salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb

2023-01-15 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, I have started a machine translation from https://ddp-team.pages.debian.net/dpb/BuildWithGBP.pdf at https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb. I know that this is not a good translation. It should first help to understand what is written there. Help from native speakers is very welcome. P

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 09:18:59AM -0500, nick black wrote: >Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:11:40 -0500, nick black >> wrote: >> >i'm absolutely not suggesting we stop supporting NIS or other >> >programs which rely on unshadowed passwords. it's a big ol'

Re: setting sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range

2023-01-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 02:35:06AM +0100, Ángel wrote: > I would change that to: Please don't. If we change the distribution default for net.ipv4.ping_group_range, then ping should refrain from ever trying to check for it and never make the executable privileged. Bastian -- There is a multi-le