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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 16:55:26 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6653
Message-ID:  <19980519165526.43763@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805191453.KAA20305@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:53:25AM -0400
References:  <199805191310.GAA28279@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805191453.KAA20305@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:53:25AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 19 May 1998 06:10:01 -0700 (PDT), Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> said:
> 
> >  My preference would be for db:
> >                db/        misc. automatically generated system-specific
> >                           database files
> >  though /var/tmp is probably OK, too (it is supposed to be kept between
> >  reboots).
>  
> I prefer /etc, since it is security-sensitive, and someone who is
> likewise concerned with security will take additional steps to secure
> /etc.

... such as marking it read-only.  Not too good.

Eivind.

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