Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:49, Joey Hess wrote: > Index: manual/en/boot-installer/parameters.xml > === > +disable that authentication. Warning: Insecure, not recommended. s/I/i/ And possibly: Warning: insecure, not recommended.

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
peter green wrote: > imo making this availible through preseeding while it will be helpfull > for some is not going to help most people who run into this issue. > > the real fix imo would be to make apt/aptitude have an option to use > debconf for this prompt. Failing that i belive the soloution w

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Would it be worth creating an alias for it (as it is very long in its raw > form)? I don't want to make it too easy to use this. > Should this be really be kept by default for the target system? If so, > that should be documented very clearly. Probably best to remove it at t

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Index: manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml >> === >> +#d-i debian-installer/allowunauthenticated string true > > Shouldn't this parameter be documented as a boot parameter too? Would it > be worth

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:05, Joey Hess wrote: > I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key > expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when > installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel > port is using. I have no objec

RE: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread peter green
> I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key > expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when > installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel > port is using. > > I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if p