From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 13 3:59:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (indyio.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C25015160 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Received: from mars.rz.uni-sb.de (ns0.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.5]) by indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10673723; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:58:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from work.net.local (maxtnt-033.telip.uni-sb.de [134.96.70.160]) by mars.rz.uni-sb.de (8.8.8/8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA23186; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:58:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de (netchild@localhost.net.local [127.0.0.1]) by work.net.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00913; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:39:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Message-Id: <199911131039.LAA00913@work.net.local> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:39:35 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf? To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: robert@cyrus.watson.org, dcs@newsguy.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Nov, Robert Watson wrote: >> >> >> (102) netchild@ttyp2 > grep cat /etc/rc.conf.local >> >> >> spppconfig_isp0="`cat /etc/isdn/connect.parameters`" >> > ^^^ >> > Calling programs from any of the rc.conf files is considered evil >> > and it's looked down on. >> >> Itīs there to hide login/passwd information for i4b. > > But it seems like the end up as arguments to ifconfig at a later date, ^^ s/if/spp/ > where a user can pull them out of ps, /proc, etc. The window there > is clearly shorter than keeping it in /etc/rc.conf, but still not It will only be in /proc (ps, etc.) at execution-/boot-time or am I missing something? Bye, Alexander. -- Been there, done that, can't remember why... http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger+Home @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message