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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.

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