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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:18:30 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/include Makefile src/release Makefile src/release/picobsd/build Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/custom Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/dial Makefile.mfs src/release/picobsd/install Makefile.mfs 
Message-ID:  <200007260018.SAA25201@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:43 PDT." <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> 
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In message <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: > The problem is that if you have a symbolic link for things like /tmp,
: > /var/tmp, /var/mail, etc then without -L you'd continue to have
: > insecure permissions if you botched the initial install.  It is a
: > relatively weak reason, but an important one for those that need it.
: 
: How do other BSDs handle this?

Other BSDs do PHYSICAL.

: How does this weight up to the problem Peter mentions?

Peter's problems are the reason that we should have PHYSICAL by
default and a knob to make it LOGICAL for those few people that need
it.  I think I've said this about 20 times now...

Warner


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