Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:39:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to login.conf Message-ID: <199807130639.XAA00272@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199807130503.WAA06547@pau-amma.whistle.com> from "David Wolfskill" at Jul 12, 98 10:03:09 pm
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> >vilc (as in vipw) anyone? > > Seems that the name probably ought to be closer to "virc" -- but then, > I'm pretty bad at naming things.... :-} > > But yes; that's certainly one approach that might well be workable. > Implementing it might be "interesting".... > > I'd be content, though, with a separately-run executable that would run > around & do various consistency checks. (vipw is of somewhat more > limited scope, I would expect....) Well, this is more along the lines of a schema based system, where you say "here is the proposed changes, are they consistent?". It's more useful that they be globally consistent than that they be merely internally consistent. Consider the network interface whose IP address, netmask, and broadcast address are consistent, but which are in conflict with another network interface. This moves into the real of LDAP and subschema enforcement, I think. It's amazing to me that sendmail used to have a .cf checking mechanism, in support of "frozen" configurations, but that this was discarded at the same time configurations were discarded. You could also consider the case of a modification to the bind configuration information that would result in both upper and lower case versions of the same host name. There should be a method for proposing a group of changes as an atomic unit, and having them vetted (or rejected) as a unit. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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