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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:01:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban)
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, 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
Message-ID:  <200007261801.LAA02808@laptop.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007261738.LAA30792@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Jul 26, 2000 11:38:06 am"

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Warner Losh writes:
> [[ CCs trimmed ]]
> 
> The one area that Andrey and I don't agree on at the moment is if it
> should be on by default or off by default.  I guess the first person
> to find time to implement it will get to choose :-).
> 
> Maybe this issue needs to be addressed in a more creative way.  If we
> were to update /etc/security to warn of these insecure directories,
> then we could easily have -L off and the system admin would know, via
> the handbook docs that we could write, to run mtree -L once to fix the
> problems.  Since the directories stay fixed once fixed, absenst enemy
> action, this might be a good solution.  Also, we might put something
> in the buildworld process that checks at the end so that people would
> know if they had a problem right away.

I like this solution.

> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> 

-- dima


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