Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-25 Thread lange
Another very odd thing I found. On https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ there's no hint about images including non-free firmware. No hint about firmware at all. And then this FAQ Where is the CD image with non-free? . Sometimes, someone is kind enough to create unofficial non-free CDs. If you c

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
Hi, I'm using NIS since 20+ years in a small network with about 60 computers. Since I manage all computers and the physical network can be seen as secure (I know it's not perfect secure) I do not need the additional crypto features of NIS+ or LDAP, which would be overkill. All my users use yppassw

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > If your users are using yppasswd on the NIS master for changing passwords, > then evidently you are not relying on support for NIS in PAM. (yppasswd > doesn't even link against libpam.) Thanks for clarifying this

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > NIS also dates from a period when rsh was considered acceptable, and unless > I'm mistaken, has a comparable level of security. Allowing access to > password hashes for users based on the IP of the machine you are querying >

directory for icons

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi my package fai-server will include a command faimond-gui which needs some icons. Were should I put those icons? /usr/share/packagename/icons or /usr/share/commandname/icons or /usr/share/icons/packagename or a different location? I could not find anything in the policy, developers-reference o

Bug#563004: ITP: procserv -- A process server with telnet console and log access

2009-12-29 Thread Ralph Lange
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ralph Lange * Package name: procserv Version : 2.5.0 Upstream Author : Ralph Lange * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/procserv/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A process server with

Re: Bug#563004: ITP: procserv -- A process server with telnet console and log access

2009-12-30 Thread Ralph Lange
Hello, On Wed 30 Dec 2009 2:07:16 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I am curious why ssh+screen can't do the job? It would be much more secure than telnet. It would be nice to add a note in the package description. Also it is much more "à la unix" to use two tools together to do one job, each one doing one

FAI workshop

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, again this year, we will held a FAI workshop meeting from july 2-4 at the Linuxhotel (http://www.linuxhotel.de) in Essen, Germany. People which already use FAI meet there to work the whole weekend on improving the FAI software like we did in the past. If you have experiences with FAI and

re: debian pxe dhcp netinstall (debconf enterprise fai etc.)

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Lange
r software. Without other users, your software will not become better, because you can't find all the bugs yourself. To summarize, I invite you to join the FAI mailling list and help improve FAI, so it will also meet your needs. -- best regards Thomas Lange (author of FAI) http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
Is there a script, that can automaticly determine the best or correct name of the kernel-image that should be installed? I think something with grep and sed from /proc/cpuinfo should write k7, k6, 586tsc or someing else to stdout. Has someone created this script already ? kernel-image-2.4.18-k7

Re: debian-new-packages-announce@l.d.o ?

2001-05-08 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:40:19PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: | Hi | | What do you think about making a new list which would be used to | announce new packages in Debian ? | It could be done automatically, when package is uploaded for the first | time. It would contain description of package

Re: Automating dpkg-reconfigure answers via a shell script

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas Lange
on. I think we should have dpkg-reconfigure (or > dpkg or whatever) be able to overide default pacakge installtion > value from a file. The best solution would be that all postinst scripts use debconf. The We do not need this dirty trick. -- Thomas -

how to move a config file during package upgrade

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Lange
-- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 1024D/AB9B66FD AEA6 A8C1 BD8E 67C4 8EF6 8BCA DC13 E54E AB9B 66FD --

Re: problems with the resolver in glibc 2.0.7u

1998-10-06 Thread Soenke Lange
not sure about it, but if others > find this, then it is at least a grave bug... same with smail :-( regards Soenke ------ Soenke Lange -- Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-03 Thread Daniel Lange
We (debian/DSA) do not provide email hosting. We provide email forwarding. DSA should re-evaluate that. We run into more and more problems sending from @debian.org email addresses as the three big players in email ratchet up their anti-spam measures. They are hosting a huge share of our use

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-03 Thread Daniel Lange
Hi Sam, Am 03.06.19 um 13:29 schrieb Sam Hartman: 1) You're asking all DDs to use this infrastructure you set up. Currently everybody routes inbound mail via two Debian servers (as they are the only MXs for debian.org). Everybody who needs to make sure they can reach @gmail.com / GApps user

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-03 Thread Daniel Lange
Am 03.06.19 um 18:09 schrieb Marco d'Itri: -all would stop some forged emails, but we do not have forged email issues. We do. 4% of this year's spam in my spam traps have originated as fake @debian.org. Unfortunately we even nicely relay them as we can't tell legitimate and fake Debian email a

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-03 Thread Daniel Lange
Am 03.06.19 um 22:32 schrieb Marco d'Itri: On Jun 03, Daniel Lange wrote: > > -all would stop some forged emails, but we do not have forged email > > issues. > We do. 4% of this year's spam in my spam traps have originated as fake > @debian.org. Unfortunately we

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-05 Thread Daniel Lange
Am 04.06.19 um 17:51 schrieb Graham Inggs: I would certainly make use of SMTP for sending @debian.org email. I can't see the advantage of IMAP over forwarding though, would you explain how you see it working, or who would use it? I wouldn't need IMAP either. But for those who are stuck with

DebConf23 registration and CfP are open

2023-06-12 Thread Daniel Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, For DebConf23, we're pleased to announce opening of registration and call for proposal. Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open. The 24th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held from *September 10th

Re: Making Debian available - patch for webwml

2021-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:37:37 +0100, Holger Wansing > said: >> debian-www team: what do you think about adding some more hint/warning >> banners pointing to firmware-including installation images? I really like to have a hint, but warning is a too negative word. Having those non

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Lange
Another very odd thing I found. On https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ there's no hint about images including non-free firmware. No hint about firmware at all. And then this FAQ Where is the CD image with non-free? . Sometimes, someone is kind enough to create unofficial non-free CDs. If you c

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > If your users are using yppasswd on the NIS master for changing passwords, > then evidently you are not relying on support for NIS in PAM. (yppasswd > doesn't even link against libpam.) Thanks for clarifying this

Re: DebConf20 registration is now open (with caveats)

2020-05-23 Thread Daniel Lange
Hi Enrico, Am 23.05.20 um 18:41 schrieb Enrico Zini: I'm perplexed by the deadline for the bursaries being earlier than the date in which there'll be a decision about what the format of the conference will be like. That's because we need some time to evaluate bursary requests and if we give p

Reminder: DebConf20 registration, bursary status, Covid-19 survey results

2020-06-01 Thread Daniel Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, just a quick reminder: The local team and the DebConf committee (DCC) need to decide next Monday whether we keep DebConf20 as a physical conference for those that will likely be able (and willing) to travel in August. Please help us by registe

Re: [Debconf-team] OCF.tw for Debian Trusted Organization

2017-02-21 Thread Daniel Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 22.02.2017 um 04:30 schrieb Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu): > I'd like to propose OCF.tw to be a Trusted Organization. And OCF.tw > also have the interests to be in. But I don't know how to start. > We've both read > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/T