Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:18:38 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: dhw@whistle.com, joe@via.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to login.conf Message-ID: <199807130418.VAA06381@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199807130402.VAA18751@monk.via.net>
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>Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:02:41 -0700 >From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> >Why not have the kernel set some reasonable 'min' value that >it would silently enforced? That's certainly a possible approach. I'm merely pointing out another alternative way of accomplishing what I interpreted as the base objective (avoiding self-inflicted injury). I confess that I haven't had the time to actually read the kernel source, but based on my experience in various systems, I'd expect that there could well be lots of variables that could be set to values too low (or too high, or too out-of-sync with some other variables) to make sense. Maybe 2 or 3 could make sense to check in the kernel... but it seems to me that the approach is likely to get very complex very quickly. On the other hand, the use of an external tool wouldn't involve any change to the kernel itself, and could start out simple, with new tests being added comparatively modularly (and thus, one hopes, easily). david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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