On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>wrote:

> I could go along with that, especially if questions were worded
> something along the lines of
> "You can't edit a file you own but the permissions are 644, what's up?"
> and possible answers are "fs is mounted ro", "chattr was previously
> used" etc etc.
> IOW, know the name of the tool but no need to test how it is used.
>

Or even, "file may be marked as immutable in the file system."

Also might want to also add that no security modules or context have been
applied (e.g., SELinux) in the question.


> These days rcs is primarily a sysadmin tool whereas CVS/SVN/Git are
> primarily developer's tools
>

Actually, Subversion and Git are regularly and heavily used as sysadmin
version control for configuration and management, typically of recipes and
similar systems. [1] [2]

-- bjs

[1] Chef:  http://docs.opscode.com/resource_scm.html
[2] Puppet:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/puppet_version_control


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