From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 10 11:18:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (indyio.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030C0152A1 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Received: from mars.rz.uni-sb.de (ns0.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.5]) by indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA9801659; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:17:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from work.net.local (maxtnt-022.telip.uni-sb.de [134.96.70.149]) by mars.rz.uni-sb.de (8.8.8/8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id UAA16467; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:17:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de (netchild@localhost.net.local [127.0.0.1]) by work.net.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00971; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:48:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Message-Id: <199911101848.TAA00971@work.net.local> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:48:36 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf? To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Nov, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: >> Ok, so we (root of machine xxx) have either a security hole >> (dial-in-passwd visible to everyone) or we have to forget the >> recommended way of doing it. > > It looks to me as though the recommended way of doing it needs to > be changed. How about putting the sppp setup in a separate script > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ? Or, put the script in /etc/isdn and add > that directory to the local_startups variable in rc.conf ? Thereīs already rc.isdn, we just have to find a name for the config file (Iīve no problem to do it in my setup, I just want to have a official way to close this security hole). >>>> Is this just my system or is man really reading rc.conf(.local)? >>> I think that's perfectly legal. >> Yes, but is it necessary? > > The whole rc setup isn't 'necessary'. But it's damned useful > and convienient. And so is the ability for arbitrary programs > and scripts to read and easily parse rc.conf to obtain system > wide defaults. Sorry, I didnīt object to the rc setup, I just want to know why we didnīt use manpath.config (yes, "man_locales" isnīt realy a path-specifier, but itīs relatet to man & localized man-pages which are stored in īManPathElementī/LocalePart/). And I didnīt say it has to be changed (but we have to change the startup of i4b). Bye, Alexander. -- Dead men tell no tales, unless you're in forensics. http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger+Home @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message