From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 8 0:31:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (ns.demophon.com [193.65.70.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A728D14C01 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id KAA18086; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:27:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from will) To: Alex Zepeda Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup References: From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 08 Jul 1999 10:27:14 +0300 In-Reply-To: Alex Zepeda's message of "8 Jul 1999 00:35:25 +0300" Message-ID: <86k8sbr48d.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Zepeda writes: > > > 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. Unix systems are typically designed the other way around - don't read-protect files unless they contain something that users must not see. Currently, FreeBSD conforms to this philosophy quite nicely, and I hope it continues to do so. Personally, I like being able to do as much as possible without having to su root unless I want to modify things. I also like being able to see how things are set up on systems where I don't have root privileges. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message