From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 27 8:41:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1819837B42C for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3RFf8l88021 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:41:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:41:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure-supfile ? In-Reply-To: <200104271532.f3RFWGc27936@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Rules for files in /etc/defaults: > > > 1. Don't ever modify these files! > > > > Just to emphasize this point, what if everything in /etc/defaults was made > > to be read-only and SCHG? > > freebsd-questions would start getting 50-60 messages a day asking why > these files can't be edited. Making them '444' might be a good idea, > though. I just think schg is a bit too extreme. Ah, good point. Forget the schg idea, then. Perhaps a README file in that directory giving quick usage instructions and man page pointers would be an idea to address the other rules you mentioned... -- Bob | "Villain, I have done thy mother" - Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene II To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message