Re: debian friendly unmanaged hosting joints?

2003-02-17 Thread Tim Quinlan
Well, you have to commend Mark's honesty. He did say, I really didn't want to use this excellent mailing list as a sales platform. And he answered the question. It's better than being subversive and saying something like, I am a _very_ _happy_ customer of company XYZ. They rule On Mon,

Re: Being new to Debian...

2002-11-15 Thread Tim Quinlan
I agree. If you are running in a production environment that is exposed to the Internet definently stick with stable. It's much easier to compile a few latest and greatest programs that fit your needs than it is to keep track of and compile all of the security updates. On Fri, 15 Nov 2002,

Re: Being new to Debian...

2002-11-15 Thread Tim Quinlan
I agree. If you are running in a production environment that is exposed to the Internet definently stick with stable. It's much easier to compile a few latest and greatest programs that fit your needs than it is to keep track of and compile all of the security updates. On Fri, 15 Nov 2002,

RE: Forced DHCP setup

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Quinlan
NoCatAuth (nocat.net) does exactly this. Although I think NoCat is designed with wireless in mind. Not sure if it works with normal wired network cards, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't. On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, C. R. Oldham wrote: I don't believe it's possible to have a user log in to

RE: Forced DHCP setup

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Quinlan
NoCatAuth (nocat.net) does exactly this. Although I think NoCat is designed with wireless in mind. Not sure if it works with normal wired network cards, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't. On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, C. R. Oldham wrote: I don't believe it's possible to have a user log in to

Re: unstable is unstable; stable is outdated

2002-02-01 Thread Tim Quinlan
kernel, etc... and as we all know, jumping from stable to unstable is problem-prone and doesn't worth flawlessly every time. Why jump all the way to unstable, why not use testing? Testing is usually stable enough for most applications plus the various software packages are pretty up to date.

Re: unstable is unstable; stable is outdated

2002-02-01 Thread Tim Quinlan
kernel, etc... and as we all know, jumping from stable to unstable is problem-prone and doesn't worth flawlessly every time. Why jump all the way to unstable, why not use testing? Testing is usually stable enough for most applications plus the various software packages are pretty up to date.

Fwd: scp, no ssh

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Quinlan
how about setting the user's shell to /bin/true. this allows ftp, but no login shell. so it may work for scp as well. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: scp, no ssh Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:49:10 +0100 From: Robert Janusz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to allow,

Re: Fwd: scp, no ssh

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Quinlan
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 21:23, Joel Michael wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 12:19, Tim Quinlan wrote: how about setting the user's shell to /bin/true. this allows ftp, but no login shell. so it may work for scp as well. This is true, but you can still (probably) use ssh to execute

Fwd: scp, no ssh

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Quinlan
how about setting the user's shell to /bin/true. this allows ftp, but no login shell. so it may work for scp as well. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: scp, no ssh Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:49:10 +0100 From: Robert Janusz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org How

Re: Fwd: scp, no ssh

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Quinlan
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 21:23, Joel Michael wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 12:19, Tim Quinlan wrote: how about setting the user's shell to /bin/true. this allows ftp, but no login shell. so it may work for scp as well. This is true, but you can still (probably) use ssh to execute