From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 19 11:13:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (imr1.ericy.com [208.237.135.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C459A37B406 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5u3.ericy.com [208.237.135.124]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5JIDea07513; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:13:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5JIDdV22308; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:13:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f5JIDcG12820; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:13:37 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NHB84TP4; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:13:30 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: Igor Roshchin Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B2F9648.3030007@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:13:28 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Read-only /etc/defaults/* (was: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf (Was: IPFW newbie)) References: <200106191622.MAA66100@giganda.komkon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Igor Roshchin wrote: > I am surprised to see that two people in a raw gave an advice, suggesting > to edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > IIRC, /etc/defaults was introduced as a nice instrument of having > _default_ settings in one directory, and changes to it in a standard file > in /etc. (Approach used on other systems (e.g. Irix) even earlier) > IMHO, this makes it much easier to do system upgrades. > > So, IMHO, the Good Thing is to add lines from the files in /etc/defaults/* > to the corresponding files in /etc/ . Yes, definitly. I think we should consider the possibility of having /etc/defaults/* files read-only to "encourage" this behavior. A. -- Antoine Beaupré LMC/K TCM team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message