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diff --git a/website/bugs/setup-subcommand-for-monkeysphere-server.mdwn b/website/bugs/setup-subcommand-for-monkeysphere-server.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 99c6149..0000000 --- a/website/bugs/setup-subcommand-for-monkeysphere-server.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="proposed new monkeysphere-server subcommand: setup" ]] - -What if everything that's done in the package post-installation -scripts (aside from maybe the creation of the monkeysphere user -itself) was done with a single call to something like - - monkeysphere-server setup - -This would make things more obvious to folks installing from source -directly, and put less maintenance load on porters. The end of -`monkeysphere-server setup` could also invoke `monkeysphere-server -diagnostics` to get the admin pointed in the right direction. - -Think of this as a sort of automated "Getting Started" documentation. - -Of course, a hypothetical *full* setup command would do things like -`gen-key`, auto-modify `sshd_config`, etc. We wouldn't want to do -those things automatically without the guiding hand of the local -sysadmin. - -But perhaps we could even smooth that process with: - - monkeysphere-server setup --full - -I'd like to know what other folks think about these possibilities. -Would either of these be useful? Are they confusing? Could they be -clarified? - ---dkg - ---- - -I'm not sure how I feel about this idea. I feel like it should just -be the job of the package to setup the initial server environment. I -don't really feel like the admin should have to worry about it. But -then again, I can sort of see it from the point of view of someone -just installing from source (but who the hell really does that -anymore anyway?). - -I'm also sort of mixed about the setup --full idea as well. At first -I thought that it wasn't a good idea, and that I didn't like the idea -of monkeysphere monkeying around with the config files of other -packages (ie. ssh). However, once I started to think about setting up -monkeysphere on lots of servers, I started to think that it's maybe a -good idea. It might be good to have a single command that would just -end with the server being on the monkeysphere: - - * generate the server key - * modify sshd to point to it - * restart ssh - * publish the key to the keyserver - -So I'm starting to think that this might be a good idea. Also curious -what other think. - --- jrollins |