Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, eivind@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: *** HEADS UP *** rc.conf changes (security) Message-ID: <200007282332.QAA24334@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210102b5a7c67663b8@[128.113.24.47]> from Garance A Drosihn at "Jul 28, 2000 07:25:49 pm"
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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 <jhb@bsdi.com> -- 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
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