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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:54:31 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildworld failing
Message-ID:  <20001009185431.C252@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20001009103539.B28702@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:35:39AM -0400
References:  <20001008154111.D96958@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010090022420.95800-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> <14817.54397.228468.872440@onceler.kciLink.com> <20001009103539.B28702@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:35:39AM -0400, Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:21:49AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >>>>> "a" == andrew  <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:
> > 
> > a> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > >> People already having root privs are not stopped by it. Or is it only aimed
> > >> at the higher securelevels?
> > 
> > a> I assume its for secure levels 1 and above and if you were a security
> > a> conscious site I imagine it would be a very useful feature.
> > 
> > My question is why does /usr/obj need the schg flag set on anything in
> > the first place?  It basically means that on a secure system you have
> > to reboot to single user just to delete the build tree.
> > 
> 
> It doesn't (as of 4.x).  Previous branches did set the schg flag, however
> 4.x and 5.x no longer do this.

Thank you for the explanation. Can you just confirm that this has *always*
been the case for 4.x? (so that I can update the handbook).

> 
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