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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 02:27:45 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <20001012022745.A10462@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120151210.623-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:55:55AM -0400
References:  <20001012003552.A49482@mithrandr.moria.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120151210.623-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:55:55AM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> Is there any reason all of this security stuff can't be relegated to a
> package?  Seems like it would be much better than constantly hacking on
> sysinstall and the ability to have interactive packages does exist I
> believe.

Interactive packages work poorly with sysinstall - they're displayed
on another vty, and the user has no indication of this.

It's becoming more and more of a problem as packages gain interactive
security warnings/installation confirmations/license agreements/etc,
for example. :-(

Kris


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