On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:14:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > > An interesting proposal that Colin made was to converge towards a task > > named "Login server" or something similar, that would include > > openssh-server, along with other packages such as denyhosts (or > > sshguard), rssh (Restricted shell allowing scp, sftp, cvs, svn, rsync > > or rdist), molly-guard (protects machines from accidental > > shutdowns/reboots)... > > Most systems really only want ssh, not any of the rest.
Is this assertion really true? My experience has been that quite a lot of people actually want something a bit more, even if they don't know it. openssh-server only Suggests those packages because I'm pretty conservative about pulling in extra packages, but I know an awful lot of sysadmins who want sshd for some kind of restricted sftp-only setup, or who want sshd and want to automatically lock out people who try to brute-force accounts, or similar. I genuinely think a task for this would be a good idea. Of course, we can quote unsupported anecdotes at each other all day. :-) > Also, I doubt that anybody using D-I would have a clear idea of what > a "Login server" task would actually contain, making it bad from a > usability PoV. We should really make tasksel able to display extended descriptions of tasks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
