From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 25 17:19: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3606637B645; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28697; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:18:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA25201; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:18:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007260018.SAA25201@harmony.village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar 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 Cc: Peter Wemm , "Andrey A. Chernov" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Will Andrews , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:43 PDT." <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> References: <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> <200007252213.PAA34677@netplex.com.au> <200007252322.RAA24596@harmony.village.org> <200007252340.RAA24778@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:18:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : 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? Other BSDs do PHYSICAL. : How does this weight up to the problem Peter mentions? Peter's problems are the reason that we should have PHYSICAL by default and a knob to make it LOGICAL for those few people that need it. I think I've said this about 20 times now... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message