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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: userland ppp - startup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907071433320.315-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990707163639.B27955@homer.louisville.edu>

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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:19:02PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote:
> > 
> > > 	[ML]  You do not really want these on the command line for
> > > everyone to see with ps. (nor in rc.conf for everyone to see with e.g.
> > > cat)
> > 
> > Why is rc.conf readable by world?!
> 
> Why not?

What reason would the rest of the "world" have to read rc.conf?  It could
only create a possible security risk.

- alex



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