Subject: Re: netatalk security vs. ftp, ssh - encrypted passwords
From: Hauke Fath (hf@Tangro.DE)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 01:55:23 EDT
At 17:47 31.07.00 -0700, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
>on 7/31/00 11:33 AM, Tom Fitzgerald at tfitz@MIT.EDU wrote:
>
> > Sounds to me like the ultimate HOWTO is: "Don't touch any prepackaged
> > RPM with a 10-foot pole. Always get the source, compile and install it
> > yourself."
>
>Jeepers.... Maybe I should just create a special list and regularly send the
>rant below to all of them to make sure it sinks in. The question was "Any
>HOWTO on setting up encrypted passwords well?" could you explain how that
>friggin' relates to your answer?
[...]
>Is that clear, or does it need to be repeated?
"The Noise of a GNU generation."
Harry,
you have every right to your opinion, but please stop spamming the list.
1) We are talking about the bleeding edge of development here, and anyone
participating and/or using -current is expected to (be able to) build
things for himself. This is "netatalk-admins" and not "netatalk-newusers".
2) You are actually provided binary packages as a convenience, but you want
more: You want binary packages with every odd permutation of compile
switches. No, you don't want to build them yourself, you want *somebody
else* to sit down and do the work for you after your spec. This is an Open
Source project. No-one on the list "owes" you a binary package. Need I say
more?
3) This is not a vendetta against binary packages, which save work and have
their place for *stable* source.
My 0,02 Euro.
hauke
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