Ubuntu again

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Monday 01 May 2006 21:53, David Bandel wrote:
> I appreciate the offer.  But Perl is pretty much required as a system
> tool so is not an add-on.  Python is not a required system tool, so
> would be an add-on.  I'm trying to keep this as small as possible.
> I'll be using the squashfs to keep things small.  This must all fit on
> a CF disk, the smaller the better.

I actually expected that response.  The original 1.0 version was written in 
Perl, but continued development has been done in Python since Python has a 
clearer delineation between "plain text" and regex.  That and a whole lot of 
"warm fuzzy" type things which alone are not deciding factors.

Since my products are the only known user of the tool, I kept the "1.x" train 
so it doesn't seem more mature than it is :)

> Monowall is based on FreeBSD, but they decided to use PHP (IMHO, that
> was dumb) and rewrote everything (bootup scripts, etc.) in PHP.  I
> don't even want to think about doing something that drastic.  I'm
> looking at LFS and stripping out all the build tools, locale, etc.,
> that's not needed and go from there.  Will add openvpn, cbq.init,
> apache.  Not much more. Web pages will configure everything so even a
> layman can do it.

I've been meaning to discuss OpenVPN with you since I knew you used it.  I'm 
adding it into BigBlock v2.x, and would like to keep it as management-free as 
possible.  There is a Webmin module for it, but it is so CA-centric (as in, a 
CA only for use by OpenVPN) that I don't really like it.

How are you doing authentication?  Do you use pam, certs or both?  

I'd like to do pam, but requiring a client-side plugin is not necessarily 
making me happy.  I haven't tried with Windows yet, so I'm not sure what to 
expect there either.


Thanks,
Matt
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