From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 26 0:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A444837BE45; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10670; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Warner Losh Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:40:23 MDT." <200007252340.RAA24778@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:37:12 -0700 Message-ID: <10667.964597032@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. I'm still not convinced that we're not trying to out-clever ourselves and the administrator who is _supposed_ to know what they are doing through this change. I've read Andrey's arguments and, at best, they strike me as _seriously_ weak. I'm also still wondering what the other *BSDs are doing here - I don't have a NetBSD or OpenBSD box to check, but if someone else does I'd very much like to know. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message