Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:04:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Blankensteiner <db@traceroute.dk> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205311601470.24549-100000@smtp.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <01bf01c208ec$b11a7380$6800a8c0@rafter>
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On Fri, 31 May 2002, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > I think it is easier to setup, let's say FTP, if you know ALL the config > files are in /etv/daemons/ftp. And the only place to start the ftpd from > when booting, is from /etc/daemons/startup. > When you add a user, you have to grand him or deny him access to > services. This you do by changing a lot of config files, maybe > forgetting some? So a central access file, is maybe not so bad. > When more services are added, /etc will "explode". We already got > /etc/mail and /etc/ssh, why not /etc/ftp? And then put them in > /etc/daemons/, it makes more sence. The problem with this is that the past 15 years of software doesn't work this way. It would take a fair amount of legwork to go through and hammer everything into this mold that would be FreeBSD-specific. I think it would be *very* difficult to get buy-in from all the projets out there that we might potentially use. It's a lot of work already keeping the contrib'ified sources in sync with the vendors, now imagine customizing everything so it was in /etc/daemons/* It's a lot of work to do what you propose. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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