Hi chuck adams <chuck.adams.k...@gmail.com> writes:
> Using the suggested comment that /etc/network/interfaces needed lines > commented out, I went to a working system and compared the interfaces > file. > > In the installation using the wireless interface the interfaces > file contained a serious security violation as shown here: > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wpa-ssid NETGEAR > wpa-psk wittyflower875 > > > In that the file contains, in plain ASCII text, > the ssid and password for the network and the file > is viewable by all users. Does anyone know if it's really necessary that /etc/network/interfaces is world readable? Or could this file set to mode 0600 by d-i if it contains any sensitive information? > > I commented out the lines and added > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > which I don't know is absolutely necessary. > > A reboot of the system does bring up the WiFi > interface without any difficulty that I can see > at the present time. > > Please include a note as to when changes will be made. > I am aperiodically downloading netinst from the daily-build > and installing the system from scratch. We are currently investigating who to best fix this problem. A proposed (not yet finished) fix can be found in the people/sorina/write_config branch of netcfg. The currently favoured approach is add a medium priority question wo select which kind of network configuration should be written to the installed system. With these options: 1 network-manager configuration 2 configuration in /etc/network/interfaces 3 no configuration at all If network-manager is installed, option 1 would be the default, otherwise option 2. > > Another bug found. When plugging in a USB thumb memory drive, > it is not recognized and mounted. This bug may have already > been reported. I discovered it when I was thinking of writing > both installs (with and without using wlan0) and doing a > diff -r ( :-) ) to compare the file systems and the exact > files that were configured differently. So many bugs and so > little time. This is an entirely different bug. Please report it separately. The relevant package is probably udisks. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4qsd91d....@meteor.durcheinandertal.bofh
