This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
The package itself caters only for presenter and collector on the same
machine, which is done to give a working setup after installation. The
package is not likely to be used in this configuration in any
productive environment. ssh is one of the
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:50:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand the use case. I've never needed to
create an authorized_keys file for a system
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the
user home directory containing is the authorized_keys file, correct?
known_hosts and the key itself.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the
user home directory containing is the
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Oh, right, for the client. Yes, yes.
Well, personally I would not consider either the client's key or the
known_hosts file to be configuration files.
In some common
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the
user home directory containing is the
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think it's perfectly acceptable to have an admin drop data into a
/var/lib directory for non-default configurations of packages.
Is this documented in policy?
Greetings
Marc, really reluctant to spend days to change a package in a
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think it's perfectly acceptable to have an admin drop data into a
/var/lib directory for non-default configurations of packages.
Is this documented in policy?
Greetings
Marc,
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:08:40AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
In quite a few packages, the system user's home directory might
accumulate dotfiles and/or ssh (keys|known_hosts) files, so this
decision is not quite easy to take.
If those
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:08:40AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
If those files are intended to be persistant, then either /etc/package
or /var/lib/package are pretty much your only options. The semantics
of the other locations you mention
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:50:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand the use case. I've never needed to create
an authorized_keys file for a system account created by a package. Maybe
you could explain more about what you're doing that makes this a
reasonable thing to
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:50:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand the use case. I've never needed to
create an authorized_keys file for a system account created by a
package. Maybe you could explain more about
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Hi,
many packages have to create system accounts on installation.
Unfortunately, Debian policy is not quite clear on how to handle
these. On the other hand, Debian QA is keen on addressing issues in
account handling, which frequently leads to discussions
Marc Haber mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de writes:
Unfortunately, Policy is not clear on where a system accounts' home
directory is to be placed. Thus, a maintainer trying to fix the bug
that a home directory was placed *gasp* in /home is risking to do it
wrong again when choosing between
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