1 [[meta title="proposed new monkeysphere-server subcommand: setup" ]]
3 What if everything that's done in the package post-installation
4 scripts (aside from maybe the creation of the monkeysphere user
5 itself) was done with a single call to something like
7 monkeysphere-server setup
9 This would make things more obvious to folks installing from source
10 directly, and put less maintenance load on porters. The end of
11 `monkeysphere-server setup` could also invoke `monkeysphere-server
12 diagnostics` to get the admin pointed in the right direction.
14 Think of this as a sort of automated "Getting Started" documentation.
16 Of course, a hypothetical *full* setup command would do things like
17 `gen-key`, auto-modify `sshd_config`, etc. We wouldn't want to do
18 those things automatically without the guiding hand of the local
21 But perhaps we could even smooth that process with:
23 monkeysphere-server setup --full
25 I'd like to know what other folks think about these possibilities.
26 Would either of these be useful? Are they confusing? Could they be