Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:14:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup Message-ID: <199907080714.AAA01216@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:26:53 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907072326290.315-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> > > 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? Anything that wants access to paramters stored there. Visualise eg. a generic system monitoring script that checks the health of enabled services; any daemon running in a sandbox. Even rc.pccard could be run as non-root (modulo some changes to the way that ifconfig works). The point being that rc.conf is currently a public database, and until we have a better mechanism for managing parameter storage, it needs to stay that way. -- \\ 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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