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Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (community-scripts.github.io)

submitted 1 day ago by downhomechunk@midwest.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I only discovered this recently, and it's very handy.

Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk. You can always download the scripts, inspect them and run locally if you so choose.

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[–] HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Apples and oranges.

Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.

No need to be elitist about such things.

EDIT: this particular repo is highly regarded in the community. It is very akin to the AUR. It’s not some haphazard collection of scripts.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 3 points 23 hours ago

Apples and oranges.

Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.

Whether there's a setup wizard doesn't have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run "apt install ddclient", for example, it'll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.

So that's not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It's just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

No, package installers support configuration. Plenty of packages (e.g. postfix) prompt for configuration at install time.