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Re: PPTP & ADSL rpm



On Wed, 16 May 2001, guy keren wrote:

> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > > you should be VERY VERY careful when you place an RPM that dials into a
> > > guest ADSL account - make SURE it is clearly very visible to anyone
> > > installing the RPM - or esle, they'll dial out, use it, and later find the
> > > horrific billing on their next phone bill.
> >
> > What precautions do you suggest I'll have ?
> > Idon't think that a "click-through license" (like Sun's JDK, for example)
> > is a good ides.
>
> the precaution edpends on the configuration method. if the user modifies
> the config file by hand - make a comment IN CAPITAL LETTERS before and
> after each such guest entry, and have all entries commented out by
> default, so the user actually has to read that file to edit it.

Well, that kinds of beat the purpose of making a "plug-n-play' package ,
doesn't it ?

> if the configuration is dne by a text script that asks questions in text
> mode, print a BIG WARNING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS before asking the user
> which provider they wish to choose from, and better then this - just ask
> for their user name and place it there, and do NOT support the guest
> accounts (why support them at all, if the user surely wants to use their
> account, and not a guest account that costs MUCH MUCH MORE then that?

The user sometimes want to use a guest account - for example, if their ISP
sucks (like our does), and they want to see how fast another ISP is.

I'll just make a configuration scripty tommorow.

> if its a GUI - well, it isn't a GUI, is it? :)
no - it isn't. why ? want to write one :-)

Oded




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