>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Which reminds me, what sort of security is enabled in Steve> debconf? Can any user read the values from the database, or Steve> is it limited to root? Not sure about this (on my system only root can read /var/lib/debconf), however: Steve> An attempt to use db_get as a regular user, but only Steve> because the current backend tries to write a temporary file Steve> to var/lib/debconf (I think) (line 229 in ConfigDb.pm, Steve> potato version). not sure how well temp files are managed. I was told though, for the purpose of Heimdal-kdc, to put it in the postinst directory. This means it doesn't have to get stored in the database. ie the postinst script does a "db_get" followed by a "db_set". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>