Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:19:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup Message-ID: <199907080619.XAA00867@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:34:21 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907071433320.315-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> > > 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. This is shabby reasoning. rc.conf contains public system configuration data, which may need to be consumed by non-root processes. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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