From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 2: 0:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mobilix.dk (unknown [194.234.53.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E2937B6A4 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from lflat.vas.mobilix.dk (gw-vas.mobilix.net [212.97.206.4]) by mail.mobilix.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14640; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:03:09 +0100 Received: by lflat.vas.mobilix.dk (Postfix, from userid 72044) id 8278EA89D; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:59:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:59:30 +0100 From: Vadim Belman To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch Message-ID: <20010129105930.C62046@lflat.vas.mobilix.dk> Mail-Followup-To: Vadim Belman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Louis A. Mamakos" References: <20010128101349.2c94539f.steveo@eircom.net> <20010128190227.B25222@spawn.nectar.com> <200101290453.f0T4roq13148@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200101290453.f0T4roq13148@whizzo.transsys.com>; from louie@TransSys.COM on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > Does this capability really need to exist (e.g., supporting many files)? It > would seem like the additional complexity would be not what you want for what's > essentially a security policy mechansim. Who gets to own these included files? > What should their permissions be allowed to be? > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a single file with a list of allowable > shells. It does if you think of mergemaster, for example. With any upgrade it consider /etc/shells as changed and prompts for replacing/merging/etc. -- /Voland Vadim Belman E-mail: voland@lflat.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message