Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:42:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, john.saunders@scitec.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q]: Buildworld without secure libs (to use MD5 passwords) Message-ID: <199810242242.PAA27859@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3812.909216213@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 24, 98 01:03:33 am
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> > Good thing to know that we've finally got that "proliferation of > > config files" problem under control... it's not resolved, but at > > least we're "controlling" it... > > "ok", I "guess" I understand what "you" are trying to say here. When you are a passenger headed for an unavoidable car wreck, it's still nice to know that someone is steering. <STORY> This guy had this piano halfway through a french window. He's running back and forth between the inside and the outside of his apartment, trying to move the piano through the french window. It's obvious to anyone looking at the piano, the french window, and the door, that the piano would never have fit through the door, so the window was the only practical portal through which to move the piano, but it's obviously caught on the sill, and too heavy for one man alone to get it uncaught. A sympathetic passer-by sees this guy trying to move the piano over the sill by himself, and decides to help the poor guy out. The guy is very grateful for the help, and thanks the passer-by profusely for the offer, as his brother-in-law was supposed to help him move the piano, but was unavoidably detained. They quickly seperate, with the guy on the inside of the french window and the passer-by on the outside. With a mighty "Heave!", they both lift their respective ends of the piano, but try as they might, even with two people working on it, they simply can't budge the piano from its original position. After about fifteen minutes, the guy calls a stop to the ovbiously fruitless proceedings, and comes out with two beers, gives one to the passer-by, and they both sit down together on the curb to drink them. They discuss how immovable the piano is, and the guy thanks the passer-by for his help, and says that he's sure that tomorrow, with the help of his brother-in-law and a couple buddies from work he'll be able to get the piano out of the aparment. "OUT?", cried the passer-by, "I thought you wanted it IN!" </STORY> The moral: /etc/auth.conf is a new configuration file, and it seems a waste to gain yet-another-configuration-file after the long and valiant struggle to minimize the number and format of files that have to be editted in order to configure a FreeBSD box. Still, even if the new file must stay, it would be nice to know that at least it was the result of someone is steering, instead of being the result of people not communicating. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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