On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Scott Barninger wrote: > FYI hope this agrees to to everyone or maybe most everyone. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: D. Scott Barninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Bug 286643 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bug 286643] [NEW] bacula client configuration is broken > out of > the box > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:29:12 -0000 > > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: bacula-client > > Hello, > > I am a member of the bacula dev team, my role is rpm packaging. I > recently installed Kubuntu-8.04 on my daughter's machine (I have > bacula > running on my local Kubuntu-8.04 server). When installing the bacula > client package I spent some minimal time this past weekend figuring > out > why your package does not work "out of the box" as it were. The client > was available on the localhost but not available on the network. To > put > it simply, someone has apparently decided that packaging should > address > security concerns, and thus your package configures the client to > listen > only on localhost. While this might be apparent to me or other > developers on the bacula project, it is not, most likely, apparent to > the majority of users and we do not want this to reflect on the bacula > project as a whole. We, as an upstream dev team feel that these > concerns > should be relegated to firewalls, etc. and not to individual > applications. Thus we consider your packages broken. Please include > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in any replies. Thanks in advance for > your > consideration.
I agree with this. Most FD are not local to SD and DIR. Therefore, allow comms. Let the user do security, not the package maintainer in this case. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
