Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:32:35 -0600 (CST) From: jbryant@server.iadfw.net To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What happened to my include files!@# Message-ID: <199503302232.QAA14830@server.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <199503302034.MAA14343@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 30, 95 12:34:20 pm
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> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
> Subject: Re: What happened to my include files!@#
> To: jbryant@server.iadfw.net
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 12:34:20 -0800 (PST)
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
>
> > After having relative success with the 950210 snap, I just installed the
> > 950322 snap on my system yesterday hoping to solve a few problems.
> >
> > 1). How did the include files get screwed up?
> >
> > 2). Many passwd file operations do not now work, including the passwd(1)
> > command.
>
> You need to change the owner for /usr/bin/passwd
>
> > The matcd info cannot be changed via the -c flag either. I attempted to
> > assign a different port for matcd0 and it always comes back that matcd0
> > is unknown when giving any command using it at the config> prompt.
> On the list.
Thanks. Upon doing this, I was able to get my password back to normal.
One more problem in the distribution showed up though.
I'll have to double check the distribution again, but I could swear I had
skey.access deleted in /etc prior to installing the snap dist. I was
damn lucky I still had a shell open from which to rm /etc/skey.access...
If /etc/skey.access is in the distribution itself, I suggest it be
renamed to something like skey.access.sample so that those of us using
the old-style passwords won't be locked out of our systems.
Also, I think I should elaborate on exactly what happened with the
include files. It seems that upon installing the new snapshot,
/usr/include/sys, and several other subdirectories of /usr/include were
deleted and replaced with symlinks to /sys/sys and it's subdirectories.
The problem here is that /usr/src/sys/sys was deleted during install, and
apparently not installed from the distribution.
The second problem here is that I feel that general shell users [at least
here] should not have access to the OS sources. I understand that it is
probably a real pain to keep /usr/include in sync with the kernel
includes, but from a security standpoint, why not keep the includes the
way they were...
The old way:
chown root:wheel /usr/src
chmod 700 /usr/src
The new way:
[a lot more bs]
Regardless, the include files I need just do not exist on my system
anymore. My question: did I screw up the install, or did someone screw up
the release?
Jim
--
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think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or
radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner"
jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America
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