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On Monday 12 January 2004 18:15, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> As for the whole CDBOOT issue - as I said in another mail, those |
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> patches from Daniel did not include how CDBOOT was set. Further |
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> do I not see why we should clutter /sbin/rc any more with things |
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> like this, as the livecd is a special case, and do not need to |
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> be dynamic or tweakable on the fly. Also, setting it in /sbin/rc |
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> do not guarantee that it will be always set for rc-script - rather |
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> then /sbin/functions.sh, although some subset of how it was |
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> previously done, but rather ebuild side might be the better |
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> solution - like I said, I do not see the need for it to be dynamic. |
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I actually believe that we should take care that the configuration for cd's |
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(with the special configuration and privileges (like no login)) is not just |
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taken over to hd installs. It should be ensured that users can not by mistake |
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throw away their security (and only with difficulties by intent) |
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Paul |
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ps. I don't want an advice like "if you want no passwd, just specify cdboot as |
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kernel parameter" to float around on the forums |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |