From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 23:27:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (korea-181.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.225.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01B214E3B for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA37789; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:26:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Mike Smith Cc: Keith Stevenson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup In-Reply-To: <199907080619.XAA00867@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. What kind of non-root program would need to consume rc.conf? - alex I thought felt your touch In my car, on my clutch But I guess it's just someone who felt a lot like I remember you. - Translator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message