Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:42:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Crist J.Clark <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardlinks... Message-ID: <3CB37C7C.6F6EE24A@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204091210120.57350-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > As terry knows of course, the Interjet > had the following /etc/symlinks: (excuse linewrap) > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Mr 28 2001 crontab@ -> > /writable/system/crontab > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 18 Mr 28 2001 group@ -> > /writable/system/group [ ... ] > the single root+usr partition is mounted read-only. Yes, but appealing to a product I had something to do with, even if that organization wasn't mine in particular, makes a much less powerful argument. The other thing that's a bit painful about that argument is that the symlinks failed to operate as expected for the master.passwd, if the / was mounted read/write. I count this as a bug in the password database generation code, but it should be noted that it can be a problem (e.g the symlink is renamed to the backup, and the replacement file is created in /etc; it does the right thing, if the symlink is read-only, though...). 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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