> In the example in this thread, 'let's get a samba server up and > running as fast as possible so I can share my files', where does the > concept of defining security policies, user access, domains, etc, etc, > etc come in given your approach.
Any usable/useful GUI tool ought to ask you for those details. > Sure, rely on default settings if you will, but who's to say that they > weren't written by an axe murderer? You get your distro from an axe murderer? Ooops ;) > Or would it be a safer approach to read up, take time, understand the > strengehs, weaknesses, basic concepts, etc, then set it all up? Actually, I'd set it up with the GUI tools as far as possible first, then dig in. But wait a minute - we were talking about setting up some disk sharing between two machines on the home LAN? Setting up a server for the rest of the internet is quite a bit different. > It's like the classic example of the person who got apache up and > running on his xp desktop, opened port 80 on his router, and laid his > whole pc bare. Click, click, click, done. Not really a good example. Achieving a configuration with a GUI tool, or as you prefer with $EDITOR, is different to understanding what sort of configuration you ought to have in the first place. Whether you used webmin, $EDITOR, or whatnot to set up your apache is sort of who cares if you decided to give 5 billion people access. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
