On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:27:29AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Hmm, I have not encountered this before, but I have never had cause to > > try to install Debian from a password-protected source. Since all of > > Debian is freely redistributable, there is normally no need to protect > > it from anyone. :-) > > RHL 9 is also freely redistributable: what you're controlling is access to > the server, not to the data.
No, you're controlling access to the data. Anyone can still connect to the server when it is password-protected; you're only controlling access to the data on it. And in this case, the server wasn't publicly accessible anyway, and the password protection only existed as a workaround for problems in setting up anonymous FTP. -- - mdz
