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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:09:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc:        dima@best.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel permissions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417140750.523e-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980417005408.08278@mph124.rh.psu.edu>

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> My complaint, and I think the general complaint of people disagreeing
> with you, is that you are not setting policy at your site, you are
> setting policy on all FreeBSD boxes, as-shipped.

You have to have some sort of baseline.

Look at /etc/login.conf.  If that doesn't set policy for the entire set of
all FreeBSD boxes I don't know what does.  Why you didn't fuss about that
as much when it went in I'm not sure.

I detect an 'information wants to be free' additude though.  Maybe its
just me...

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