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On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:55, Jan Krueger wrote: |
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> On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> > That, with the fact that changing this way of doing things, will break |
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> > the 'should sorda work out of the box' policy that we support (or try |
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> > to last time I checked). |
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> Thats good policy and will work for most (Desktops). |
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> Windows does it, even for servers, and it works pretty well, especially for |
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> lovesan. |
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I did say 'sorda'. Mostly it is just a fairly usable skeleton. |
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> On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> > [...] work out of the box' |
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> Thats an illusion if gentoo-core would like to enter the serious server |
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> market. There is no such thing as 'out of the box'. |
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Once again, refer to top. |
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> Taken from http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml: |
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> "Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal |
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> secure server" |
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> is not really true. portage, beside the terrible security holes like |
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> "pkg_postinst", has, up to now, nothing to do with the security of a server. |
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> Please clearify the statement on the page. |
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Example since you keep bringing it up, and if possible how you would |
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resolve it. Also, anything that might be harmful, could also be done |
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in src_install/where ever. |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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