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Date:      Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:11:43 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make buildworld failing 
Message-ID:  <200010091811.MAA13444@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:21:49 EDT." <14817.54397.228468.872440@onceler.kciLink.com> 
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In message <14817.54397.228468.872440@onceler.kciLink.com> Vivek Khera writes:
: >>>>> "a" == andrew  <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:
: 
: a> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote:
: 
: >> People already having root privs are not stopped by it. Or is it only aimed
: >> at the higher securelevels?
: 
: a> I assume its for secure levels 1 and above and if you were a security
: a> conscious site I imagine it would be a very useful feature.
: 
: My question is why does /usr/obj need the schg flag set on anything in
: the first place?  It basically means that on a secure system you have
: to reboot to single user just to delete the build tree.

Because it installs a subset of the tree in to /usr/obj and that's the 
standard way that installs happen.  I think that you can say make
buildworld -DNOFCHG to prevent this.

Warner


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