Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:02:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rod Taylor <ports@rbt.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default Passwords Message-ID: <20040522230247.GA91261@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1085247019.3359.913.camel@jester> References: <1085247019.3359.913.camel@jester>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 01:30:20PM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote: > I've been working on porting Bricolage. Normally, the Bricolage make > process asks a large number of questions of the user. I can cut 90% of > those out (ports tree answers most) but there are a few that I'm not > sure what to do with. >=20 > One of those is the issue of a default password for the "bric" user > which connects to the database. Do I simply set the port to > IS_INTERACTIVE and allow it to ask the above question or are there > tricks to avoid it altogether? Things like passwords are usually done manually as post-install customization, e.g. editing the config files. If your port is going to be made into a package you have to do it this way anyway, since packages may not be interactive. Kris --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAr9wWWry0BWjoQKURAiK3AJ9KdcbORCpg26yToPPTqLbaP51DIQCdGRjK f+G4CcuYH0GYE607/zL1tbY= =sURY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--
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