It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2002/11/14 19:27), Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > > > - insecure permissions. Among other holes, these allowed the world to > > > erase cd-rw's. > > > > Use rc.devfs for that as it was intended. > > Don't you think it makes more sense for the kernel to start off with > more restrictive permissions, and have the administrator determine > whether more restrictive permissions are appropriate?
Actually no I dont. The security aware admin will know (or should that be "should know" :) ) what to do to make a system secure. The avarage user that uses FreeBSD dont, and will get confused if the CDROM device doesn't appear to work (ie writeprotected). -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
