Unattended updates

[Robin Sonefors]

What if it's connected through LAN to a gateway with dialup? I've done
it myself, I've seen others do it...

fre 2006-06-30 klockan 13:21 +0200 skrev David Nielsen:
> fre, 30 06 2006 kl. 19:37 +0930, skrev Karl Goetz:
> > Kai Hendry wrote:
> > > On 2006-06-30T01:10-0500 Scott Dier wrote:
> > >> I've actually had someone get very unhappy if we turned on automatic 
> > >> updates with their laptop since they use a modem from time to time and 
> > >> it can get very slow otherwise.
> > > 
> > > True, though perhaps they can be automatically throttled.
> > 
> > Throttle dial up?
> > I connect over dialup at 4.8kb/s. how are you going to throttle that and 
> > have a usable connection? not going to happen
> 
> Network-Manager, if it's connected via modem we just don't update unless
> asked to.
> 
> That being said if the system starts doing underhanded automatic
> installs I would think that if the user has 3rd party repos in his
> sources.list we would be subject to some nasty spoofing attacks (here
> I'm assuming said 3rd party doesn't sign packages or similar silliness -
> remember most users will mindlessly just answer yes to any question the
> system posses without reading the explanatory text)
> 
> - David
> 
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