Re: create password in postinst

2006-02-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Daniel Knabl wrote: > ask the user for a password via debconf (store in $CLEARPASS) > and then do HASH=`mkpasswd -S 35348090 -H md5 $CLEARPASS` and > afterwards the usual sed -e "s/default/"$HASH"/;" ... No, that's not ok. First off, any "funny" characters in the password will cause errors. Se

Need a sponsor; Bug#222807: ITP: distcmd -- Distribute load to multiple machines using ssh

2003-12-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Well, my PGP key is signed, and I've got a package. I'd like to start the NM process. I understand I need to find a sponsor and an advocate. * Package name: distcmd Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://

Re: How to proceed with Thuban Bug #220296

2003-12-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Dec 4, 2003, at 03:56, Silke Reimer wrote: I am the sponsored debian maintainer of thuban, an interactive geographic data viewer. I got a bug [1] concerning this package saying, that thuban killed the xwindows session of the bugreporter. That's likely an XFree86 bug. You probably should con

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 11:22, e-bone wrote: > I've tried: > 1 > calling cryptcat in the linuxrc script. this works, but then i can't > enter passwords at the tty ! apparently signals (ctrl-c) cannot be caught in > the linuxrc script either ? i tried a script that catches this signal > then asked fo

I'll take yydecode

2005-05-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
retitle 203896 ITA: yydecode -- decode yEnc archives submitter 203896 ! thanks I currently use this package to handle yEnc files which pan proves unable to decode, e.g., because the first post is missing. Advantages over sharutils are, if nothing else, being less than an eighth the size. Install

Re: copyright file packaging quandry

2003-06-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 07:53 US/Eastern, Sven Dowideit wrote: Hello I am working on updating the Twiki debian package, and my sponsor (Ardo) and I have hit a problem that we are unsure how to resolve. May I suggest contacting upstream and asking if Debian's normal way is OK? That'd be by f

Need a sponsor; Bug#222807: ITP: distcmd -- Distribute load to multiple machines using ssh

2003-12-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Well, my PGP key is signed, and I've got a package. I'd like to start the NM process. I understand I need to find a sponsor and an advocate. * Package name: distcmd Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://

Re: How to proceed with Thuban Bug #220296

2003-12-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Dec 4, 2003, at 03:56, Silke Reimer wrote: I am the sponsored debian maintainer of thuban, an interactive geographic data viewer. I got a bug [1] concerning this package saying, that thuban killed the xwindows session of the bugreporter. That's likely an XFree86 bug. You probably should contact

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 11:22, e-bone wrote: > I've tried: > 1 > calling cryptcat in the linuxrc script. this works, but then i can't > enter passwords at the tty ! apparently signals (ctrl-c) cannot be caught in > the linuxrc script either ? i tried a script that catches this signal > then asked fo

Re: copyright file packaging quandry

2003-06-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 07:53 US/Eastern, Sven Dowideit wrote: Hello I am working on updating the Twiki debian package, and my sponsor (Ardo) and I have hit a problem that we are unsure how to resolve. May I suggest contacting upstream and asking if Debian's normal way is OK? That'd b