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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:35:39 -0400
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildworld failing
Message-ID:  <20001009103539.B28702@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <14817.54397.228468.872440@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:21:49AM -0400
References:  <20001008154111.D96958@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010090022420.95800-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> <14817.54397.228468.872440@onceler.kciLink.com>

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:21:49AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "a" == andrew  <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:
> 
> a> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >> People already having root privs are not stopped by it. Or is it only aimed
> >> at the higher securelevels?
> 
> a> I assume its for secure levels 1 and above and if you were a security
> a> conscious site I imagine it would be a very useful feature.
> 
> My question is why does /usr/obj need the schg flag set on anything in
> the first place?  It basically means that on a secure system you have
> to reboot to single user just to delete the build tree.
> 

It doesn't (as of 4.x).  Previous branches did set the schg flag, however
4.x and 5.x no longer do this.

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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