diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007245.html')
-rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007245.html | 92 |
1 files changed, 92 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007245.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007245.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..598ecbea0 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007245.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20new%20samba-squid%20subpackage%20proporsal&In-Reply-To=%3C201108031401.18001.bgmilne%40staff.telkomsa.net%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007192.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="007255.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal</H1> + <B>Buchan Milne</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20new%20samba-squid%20subpackage%20proporsal&In-Reply-To=%3C201108031401.18001.bgmilne%40staff.telkomsa.net%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal">bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Aug 3 14:01:16 CEST 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007192.html">[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007255.html">[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7245">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7245">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7245">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7245">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:23:24 Maarten Vanraes wrote: +><i> Op dinsdag 02 augustus 2011 17:04:41 schreef Buchan Milne: +</I>><i> > Samba-common is the right package for this. I see no need to have a +</I>><i> > squid- specific subpackage (and then samba-apache, samba-freeradius, +</I>><i> > with the same content, or all virtual packages just pulling +</I>><i> > samba-common). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Feel free to mess up your squid package by adding suggests on +</I>><i> > samba-common, but since installing the right package is trivially solved +</I>><i> > by the admin and is a small portion of the work required, I would +</I>><i> > personally prefer not to increase the default footprint of any +</I>><i> > installation that pulls in squid. +</I> + +><i> this is really imho an example where conditional suggests could work well: +</I>><i> if you have squid already installed and you're installing samba, this +</I>><i> subpackage could then be suggested. (and vice versa). +</I> +But, it is irrelevant. samba-common is required by both samba-client and +samba-server, so you can't install samba without getting ntlm_auth. + +This is really about whether squid should pull in any pieces of samba by +default, and could be solved by adding: +Suggests: samba-common + +to squid. But, I don't see much value, as this is a small part of the work +required to get a single-sign on authentication solution for squid against AD. +The default squid.conf already has example configs showing that ntlm_auth is +required, and all we are saving the user is a 'urpmf ntlm_auth' and a 'urpmi +samba-common'. However, there are many scenarios squid can be deployed (e.g. +SSO with GSSAPI, basic auth with LDAP, PAM, NIS etc., no authentication, peer +cache only etc.), and I don't see a reason to pull in samba-common by default, +when it saves the admin very little effort. + +Regards, +Buchan +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007192.html">[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007255.html">[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7245">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7245">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7245">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7245">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |