[issue1326] more safe and handy default configuration

[Michael Prokop]

Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> added the comment:

> * longer history for bash: that should be the default; you can not extend the
> history once you do not find something in the history any more.

We use Zsh as default and its HISTSIZE is 500 by default for the live system,
this should be enough (if it's not we can discuss it).

> * no network services running on startup: It is often necessary to operate a
> rescue console in an unsafe environment: things like NetowrkManager, dhclient,
> avahi-daemon, rpc* should only be started with explicit consent by the user or
> if the user gives a boot option such as 'with networking'

We start by default what's considered to be important for our target audience.
E.g. there's no point in not starting dhcp by default for the usual scenarios
Grml is used in. If you don't want to start dhcp you can easily turn it off by
using the nodhcp boot option.

What we *could* discuss though is whether it would make sense to make startup of
rpcbind/rpb.statd and avahi-daemon more controllable (though we never had a
single user requesting this since a long time, so I'm wondering whether it's
really such an issue?). Any opinions on that?

> * gpg keys of all major distributions should be included in order to be able to
> verify downloads made via GRML. A similar issue has already been posted for the
> System Rescue CD: http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5208

I don't plan to maintain such a list on my own and don't see the point in
shipping that through our ISO, that's something the user should care about on
their own IMHO.

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messages: 4871, 4878
nosy: estellnb
priority: wish
status: chatting
title: more safe and handy default configuration

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