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Subject: Re: adding "noschg" to ssh and friends
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> > KK> No; schg isn't a security feature, at best it's an anti-foot-shooting
> > KK> feature to prevent accidental trashing of the file.

Even worse, its a backup "breaking" feature that causes errors when you try
to DD your system drive to another, and then update it later with rsync :-)

If you aren't careful important updates to things like 'init' won't get 
propogated to your hot standby system drive.  If you -current you might need
a hot standy system drive someday :-)  Well.....even if you -stable :-)

Later

Mark Hittinger
Earthlink
bugs@netcom.com

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