Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:13:28 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: Igor Roshchin <str@giganda.komkon.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Read-only /etc/defaults/* (was: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf (Was: IPFW newbie)) Message-ID: <3B2F9648.3030007@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <200106191622.MAA66100@giganda.komkon.org>
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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
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