Long ago, On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:40:24PM -0500, Richard Nelson wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com> > wrote:
> > For a potential USB version I thought I could somehow default to being > > "disabled" and change that if the user sets password through a file on > > the USB HDD. Seems simple to implement, though not intuitive enough. Any > > better suggestions? > > What would be a pretty slick way is what I tested over a year ago with > giving a customer number and an equipment number to users for them to > pull in a hook from the web as a boot param. You could ship out a usb > drive with a boot param like > hook=http://your.company.org/customer_number/equipment_id/rescue.sh > that would phone home to your company web server and all you do is > enable the hook when you need it from the server side. It is also a > nice way to ensure support is up to date. > > The down side to the above is that hook= boot param is broke. I have > filed a bug for it. I ended up doing something somewhat similar, as a temporary workaround. For much of the development I test the live CD/USB image in kvm[1]. So far I have been too lazy to setup anything beyond the default usernet. Thus the virtual machine is practically behind NAT. While testing I remembered that the CD already has a NAT penetration script: http://rapid-tunneling.wiki.sourceforge.net/ http://updates.xorcom.com/rapid/pool/main/r/rapid-tunneling/ So I figured I might just configure the image to try to connect using that schema. Which could be handy for the case of a USB disk. This is still only useful for a rathersmall subset of the cases, but at least for the important one of "the developer with KVM" ;-) [1] KVM as in a virtual machine. And not that Java one. Anybody for writing a KDE Video Manager (that multiplexes video from all screens)? Anyway, a new version is now on-line, at: http://updates.xorcom.com/iso/ Basically all of the config/ directory is also included, as I figure it is part of the source. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
