Sorry, the first time I sent it, I hit the wrong reply button. > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:32 PM > To: 'Ciaran McCreesh' > Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] suggestion: virtual/telnet > > I must pipe up on this one. When a user asks for "telnet" they're usually > not aware of the security risks involved. (kinda makes me wonder why it's > installed by default on Debian :-\) Probably the best way to handle this > is to create a virtual/telnet and add a default package that when > uninstalled displays a basic readme saying telnet isn't secure and why, > asks the user if they still want to do it, and THEN after they've > confirmed that they do in fact want telnet, allow them to emerge whichever > telnet they choose. > > So, to re-state because I'm not even sure what I said up there: > Create package block-telnet that does as it's name implies, blocks the > virtual/telnet package so that no other telnetd/telnet client may be > emerged without removing it first. > Setup block-telnet to install something like /usr/share/doc/telnet-readme > (the contents of the same thing you read when you remove block-telnet) and > upon unmerge fire off a simple shell script that less's the same file > (hidden) that is telnet-readme with a yes/no choice saying are you sure > you wish to remove me? > Add block-telnet -> virtual/telnet as a virtual/telnet blocker by default > for all arch/stage/devel profiles under system instead of world and make > it a default package (like nano) for Gentoo 2004. > > It honestly seems to me that this would probably take any dev minutes to > set the virtual up this way and it would also allow very fast, short > answers in regards to getting questions on telnet: > > Eg: > User: how do I install telnet? > Dev: emerge unmerge block-telnet ... and read what it says. > User: thanks for your help! > > That's my 2/100ths of a monetary unit. > Allen Parker > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:06 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] suggestion: virtual/telnet > > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:03:23 +0100 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Well, > > | this is something that a lot of users ask about (how do I get > > | telnet?) > > > > Wouldn't it be better to educate the users to get rid of that 'type in > > emerge telnet to install telnet' mentality? > > > > -- > > Ciaran McCreesh > > Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org > > Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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