From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 28 16:32:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636BB37B9D4; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA24334; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007282332.QAA24334@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: *** HEADS UP *** rc.conf changes (security) In-Reply-To: from Garance A Drosihn at "Jul 28, 2000 07:25:49 pm" To: Garance A Drosihn Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, eivind@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:41 AM +0200 7/29/00, Eivind Eklund wrote: > >After discussion with obrien, jhb, and dwithe (and non-protests from > >the other committers present), I'm changing the defaults for remote > >services in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to the least dangerous > >configuration, and making sysinstall write out overrides for the > >variables to their former default values in /etc/rc.conf upon install. > > Hopefully sysinstall will be smarter about writing these overrides > than it is about writing the "USA_RESIDENT=NO" override to /etc/make.conf. It is. It only writes these variables out when it creats an /etc/rc.conf file from scratch because one doesn't exist. Normally this only happens during the install. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message