Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

2011-09-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 12/09/11 10:12 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [ecryptfs as /home] True. At the same time, it exposes quite a lot of information, e.g. structure of the tree. I don't know how much of that could be used in a plain-text attack. Ack. Note, however, that I don't really know ecryptfs. I only brie

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

2011-09-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 12/09/11 06:50 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach intrigeri [2011.09.11.2246 +0200]: The d-i already supports easy *full* system encryption, swap included. I think this is what people should be using, not a high-level hack like ecryptfs. There might be different use cases. An encr

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Alexey Feldgendler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:07:02 +0700, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Some of us are partial to apt-get and would appreciate > >> apt-findremovable. > > > I would rather appreciate that apt-get and aptitude share the information

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Steinar H. Gunderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:13:49PM +0200, Jan Kechel wrote: > > I always had the problem, that if I removed a package via apt-get > > remove, that there were still other packages that only were installed > > because of that package. > > Use ap

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:52:58PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > I think the more important thing to realize is that the reason we have > -doc packages is because the documentation for a given program takes up > a fair amount of space. If a use

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Simon Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > emails because of obviously nonexistent envelope addresses, that doesn't > count those systems where we don't accept mail from *at all* because > they are dialup systems. This, however, is a small system with 10 email How do you define dialup syst

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-28 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Gabor Gombas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > So, how can the administrator tell dpkg "do _not_ remove this account > even if some package's postrm tries to purge it"? If there would be a > method to mark some accounts out-of-reach for automatic removal, that > would settle this issue I think.

Re: Bug #267273: cdrecord and 2.6.x bug possibly fixed

2005-01-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The bug was related to the fact that Debian fixed this by patching the > kernel rather than patching cdrecord, thereby making the behavior remain > broken on Linus' vanilla kernels. IMO, this is a bug that needs to be > fixed before releasing Sarge, so

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-11-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be > > placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot > > directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start wit