Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:43 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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: <397E2B1B.896E430F@cup.hp.com> References: <397E24A9.81AA57BA@cup.hp.com> <200007252213.PAA34677@netplex.com.au> <200007252322.RAA24596@harmony.village.org> <200007252340.RAA24778@harmony.village.org>
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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? How does this weight up to the problem Peter mentions? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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