Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:57:23 +0100 | From | Wilmer van der Gaast <> | Subject | Re: Configuration help texts for IPsec |
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James Morris (jmorris@redhat.com) wrote: > > IPsec-related options say "Say Y unless you know what you are doing.". > > Looks fine for people who applied the IPsec patch to a kernel which > > comes without it, but now that it's in stock, it's probably not very > > useful to force all users to use IPsec. > Nobody is being forced to use it: the advice is provided to help people > get IPsec working properly. > Yes, very true. But now that the patch is in 2.6 by default, I think the situation changes.
Just imagine a person who doesn't even know what IPsec is, trying to configure a 2.6 kernel. "IP: AH tranformation.. What's that? Let's check the help page. Oh, it says I should just say Yes. Okay, let's do that."
Shouldn't the text "If unsure, say Y." be more like "If you want to use IPsec, you need this."? Possibly with an addition like "If you don't know what IPsec is, you don't need it."?
Greetings,
Wilmer v/d Gaast.
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