Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:03:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <200101132203.f0DM3R935732@earth.backplane.com> References: <200101132110.f0DLAsp34762@earth.backplane.com> <200101132133.f0DLXnI21405@gratis.grondar.za>
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:> The *DEFAULT* has to guarentee proper operation. Rather then forcing
:> sysadmins to turn on the option when things break, the option should
:> be turned on by default and sysadmins who are paranoid about the
:> random number generator can turn it off.
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:Whatever, Matt.
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:The default goes in the fucking rc.conf file.
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:Now kill this bikeshed, PLEASE!!!
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:M
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:Mark Murray
:Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn
The system had damn well have a reasonable default, regardless of what
is in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf. If you don't put it in,
I will. It is simply not appropriate to commit code that can stall the
system on boot. It is far more important to ensure that that DOES NOT
HAPPEN then it is to be paranoid about cryptographically secure random
numbers. Don't make the defaults ass-backwards, all you will do is
hang up some poor sod who will wind up spending a dozen man hours trying
to figure out why his computer won't boot.
This bikeshed isn't going to go away until you people screw your heads
on right and make commits that don't create havoc with other developers.
It is NOT NECESSARY do that kind of shit to test your random number device
code.
-Matt
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