Hi John, I got your point, okay. But it's a exorbitancy that SuSE removed this commonly used feature !! Many many poeple were using ftp - most of my customers in fact. And I myself...... just arrived at the datacenter at 4 am because of an emergency, no cd - no nothing. you forgot everything @ home... some 3,5" disks can be found everywhere. Go to the next ftp i.e. ftp.gwdg.de, create the disks and go on.. I could live with a self-bootable nfs-server on one of the installation cds. Why didn't SuSE implement this nice feature ? Bye, Gunther -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: John Trickey [mailto:jtrickey@iee.org] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2002 19:26 An: suse-security@suse.com Betreff: RE: [suse-security] SuSE 8.0 no ftp installation possible ? NFS is insecure.
I've just been trying to install SuSE 8.0 via FTP, but I couldn't believe it hwen I saw it: there is no ftp-installation option. There are only two options left: - Installation via NFS (insecure !!!!) - Installation via SMB/Windows file sharing (doesn't work, because the installer can't find a no further specified module).
Please don't force us to use nfs - that sucks and is _really_ insecure.
Am I missing something or did SuSE remove the ftp-installer. Andy why doesn't the (also insecure) smb-installer work ?
Who in their right mind installs on a live network! Get real! John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here