Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:04:11 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509262004.PAA20580@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509261340.JAA16927@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 26, 95 09:40:57 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) > > +> Would you consider it easy to fix if they renumbered all the scripts in > > +> the rc3.d directory? > > That's a lot less likely than moving things around in a file, since it's > > easier to do. It's almost impossible to accidentally renumber files. > This is pointless. A user with an editor or a command prompt will > always be able to screw up an automated system. I won't even > try designing one that cannot be screwed up. No operating system > out there has anything close to that. It used to be possible for root to write to directories. A determined sysadmin no longer has that opportunity to mess the system up. A naive sysadmin is no longer likely to create orphan files with a misdirected "cat". > So arguments based upon the fact that that a determined sysadmin > can screw up the automation process are unresolvable. I can't correlate your phrase "a determined sysadmin" with my use of the word "accidentally". Perhaps you are mistaken in your assumption that I am speaking of protecting the system from deliberate abuse?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199509262004.PAA20580>