James Troup writes:
> Why would you need to [make chrony predepend on pwgen]? You're using it
> in the postinst (at least, according to your initial post), so a
> dependency is sufficient.
Because I didn't know that a dependency would be sufficient. I still can't
see adding a dependency to do so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> James Troup writes:
> > Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right?
>
> I do now. I can't see making chrony predepend on one of them,
> though.
Why would you need to? You're using it in the postinst (at least,
according to your initial post), so a
James Troup writes:
> Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right?
I do now. I can't see making chrony predepend on one of them, though.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Daniel Martin writes:
> > I'm just curious - how are you going to do this? The best way I came up
> > with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum`
>
> Clever, but it only produces hex. I want all letters and digits.
> This what I'm using:
>
> until [ `ex
Daniel Martin writes:
> I'm just curious - how are you going to do this? The best way I came up
> with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum`
Clever, but it only produces hex. I want all letters and digits.
This what I'm using:
until [ `expr "$PASSWORD" : ".*"` -ge 8 ]
do
PAS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Chrony (essentially an xntp3 clone) includes two binaries: a daemon that
> runs as root and a control program that runs in user space. To perform
> certain operations the user running the control program must provide a
> password which is stored in a file readable only
I wrote:
> I want the chrony package to install in a configuration that will "just
> work" on most systems. To do that I must put a password in that file. I
> don't want to put in a default password as most users will not change it,
> but I don't want to go to an interactive postinst either. A s
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 08:26:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chrony (essentially an xntp3 clone) includes two binaries: a daemon that
> runs as root and a control program that runs in user space. To perform
> certain operations the user running the control program must provide a
> password
Chrony (essentially an xntp3 clone) includes two binaries: a daemon that
runs as root and a control program that runs in user space. To perform
certain operations the user running the control program must provide a
password which is stored in a file readable only by root. I want the
chrony packag
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