Re: [Cooker] Mozilla FR
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 11:01, Frederic Crozat wrote: Yes I think it's strange to propose only Mozilla 1.1 in mdk 9.0 because it's a unstable release of Mozilla. Mozilla 1.0 is the last stable release. Really ? We did you saw Mozilla 1.1 is supposed to be an unstable release ?? http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html The 1.X series are the development releases with six week alpha/beta periods, the 1.0X branch is for upgrades to the stable release. That said, as a desktop distro it makes more sense for Mandrake to follow the 1.X branch, as the stable branch really means having a stable APIs for embedders (AOL on MacOS) and repackagers (i.e. Netscape 7). It's designed to guarantee minimum changes and is therefore less likely to break things API-wise. I also assume Galeon etc. are following the 1.X releases, so it makes sense for Mandrake to package the same. ian.
Re: [Cooker] feature request - multiple X sessions through kdm/gdm
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:35, SI Reasoning wrote: I have not had a chance to play around with the 9betas so excuse me if this is already in There is one feature of WinXP that I really like that they ripped from Linux but made it simpler to use...and that is the idea of multiple desktops for different users. It would be really nice if Mandrake would create a choice to login into a new desktop without having to logout of an existing one. It shouldn't be that hard to program I would think. Just add an option like in XP to switch users or logout and have the mandrake kdm/gdm automatically create a new X session if a new logon is intitiated. You could then create a unified menu entry that would list user accounts so that it would be easy to switch users from within a desktop. Have all reentry with the option of being password protected. If you're running GDM you can do this through the existing Mandrake menus: Configuration - Boot and Init - New Login with GDM ian.
Re: [Cooker] kppp messing up CHAP logins?
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:32, Crispin Boylan wrote: Hi i've tried to use kppp with BTOpenworld here in the uk (it uses CHAP authentication) but no matter what I do, it won't connect. However, my other ISP Easynet which uses PAP for authentication connects perfectly everytime. using just the normal pppd scripts works fine for both its only in kppp that problems occur..incidently with Easynet CHAP and PAP is supported and CHAP doesnt work for easynet in kppp either, whilst using pppd scripts with it and chap work fine as well. It works fine for me. I use kppp to connect to BTInternet, so don't think it's a general issue. ian.
Re: [Cooker] CGIs don't work (apache or apache2)
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 03:40, Todd Lyons wrote: Oden Eriksson wrote on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:08:30PM +0200 : What I'd like to see for Mandrake is it as quick and easy as possible for anybody to get it to do what they want it to do (obviously while being very sensitive to security issues). Yes..., it's a very sensible tightrope to walk, either usable and less secure, or not, I don't know how to accomplish both, maybe someone else does? That's pretty easy. The world's most secure preconfigured apache server: [root@fiji /var/www]# vdir -a www total 12 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Jul 31 19:36 . drwx-- 23 root root 4096 Jul 31 19:36 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 63 Jul 31 19:36 index.html [root@fiji /var/www]# cat www/index.html META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=0; URL=http://google.com; [root@fiji /var/www]# vdir cgi-bin total 0 Useful? No. Secure? Yes. That's not secure. It relies on a browser obeying a redirect and it doesn't stop someone requesting /cgi-bin/something or /somethingelse.html. A much more secure default would be to bind Apache to only listen to requests from the localhost (which is one of the steps that Bastille does). You'd then need to specifically open it up to listen to requests from the internet. Whether that is what people installing Apache would want is a different matter altogether. Though would encourage them to actually look at httpd.conf before putting it on the internet. ian.
