Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:35:31 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/release/sysinstall config.c Message-ID: <200007290035.RAA50659@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:45:37 PDT." <200007282245.PAA59993@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Just a thought.. Do we have any dependency checking here? ie: if you turn on NIS/YP and/or NFS, does that either automatically activate portmap or prompt you that it is needed? Otherwise I expect quite a bit of suprise when somebody turns on NFS just like they used to and it doesn't work... Eivind Eklund wrote: > eivind 2000/07/28 15:45:37 PDT > > Modified files: > etc/defaults rc.conf > release/sysinstall config.c > Log: > Change the defaults for portmap, sendmail and inetd to be not running them. > Make sysinstall override this on install, so the effective behavioural > change for a newly installed system is null. Overall, this makes a system > with an empty /etc/rc.conf not run any network services, and makes the > FreeBSD-provided network services that are running visible in /etc/rc.conf > (instead of making people look through /etc/defaults/rc.conf to find the > things they need to disable to secure the system.) > > Reviewed by: jhb > Discussed with: The usual cabal > > Revision Changes Path > 1.71 +4 -4 src/etc/defaults/rc.conf > 1.162 +5 -1 src/release/sysinstall/config.c > > > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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