Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:08:28 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c Message-ID: <200402221608.28196.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca> References: <200402221003.i1MA3PW0024791@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040222231649.GN45593@submonkey.net> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:22 pm, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 23:16 22/02/2004, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:14:05PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > I wonder if the optimal solution would be to have
> > > /sbin/nologin compiled without syslog support and /usr/sbin/nologin
> > > built from the same source but with syslog support enabled.
> >
> >It sounds to me like the optimal solution would actually be to move
> > it.
>
> Sure, if you want to confuse people who have spent over a decade
> expecting it to be in /sbin. We've got to leave *something* in /sbin
> for at least the near future, even if it's minimalist.
Actually moving nologin (with logging) to /usr/sbin seems a good solution.
If /usr isn't mounted, accounts with /usr/sbin/nologin as their shell
will not be able to login and you won't get a log message, exactly the
same as the previous nologin program. It's not likely that account login
will be an issue when /usr isn't mounted anyhow.
You should know I'm not objecting after-the-fact to your commit, just a
bit astonished given how much this has been opposed in the past. This is
what I wanted to happen to nologin five and a half years ago when I first
presented it to FreeBSD.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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