Alfred a écrit : > With allowing GNU/Hurd _users_ to _use_ an ssh client.
> What exactly prevents them from not using it? They can download the > random translator and use it, If they know where to find it. And it's a waste of time. And it makes things more complex and tricky than they are. > they can use the copying hack. Nothing prevents them from not usin > ssh. It also makes them aware that it is insecrue, adding it hides > this fact Just add a warning, then. > Then remove ext2fs or the GNU Mach kernel, since they are broken. > Without ext2fs the system is completly unusable, without random the > system is quite usable. Without GNU Mach you don't even have a > working system. And ? What's the difference ? In both case we have the choice between a bad solution, and no solution. With the current state of the system, a bad solution is less worse. > Then don't use it. But don't impose _your_ views to others. > I am not imposing any views on anyway, you can use the random > translator anyway you like. You're making things harder and more complex than they should be, with no real arguments except "_I_ prefer nothing than that". > I don't care about "secure" random data right now since the system > usable in a "real life" production computer, but I do care about > having an ssh client (and server) that works with just an apt-get. > Copy /bin/bash to /dev/urandom then, use the translator, do what ever > you want. Nobody is stoping you. No, but you are making more complex just because you feel like making things complex... -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org