From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 23:23:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles551.castles.com [208.214.165.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDF814E3B for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00867; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907080619.XAA00867@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alex Zepeda Cc: Keith Stevenson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:34:21 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:19:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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