From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 25 17: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3258F37BB47; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB60FE5; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id RAA20964; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:43 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Peter Wemm , "Andrey A. Chernov" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Will Andrews , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/include Makefile src/release Makefile src/release/picobsd/build Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/custom Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/dial Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/install Makefile.mfs References: <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> <200007252213.PAA34677@netplex.com.au> <200007252322.RAA24596@harmony.village.org> <200007252340.RAA24778@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > The problem is that if you have a symbolic link for things like /tmp, > /var/tmp, /var/mail, etc then without -L you'd continue to have > insecure permissions if you botched the initial install. It is a > relatively weak reason, but an important one for those that need it. How do other BSDs handle this? How does this weight up to the problem Peter mentions? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message