On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:59:09AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > 1 - historically it requires a file to be pre-created. In the rc scripts, > this is a touch. That grabs the umask and ownership of root's run of > /etc/rc. > 2 - could we do better, in some way?
We could do the same as we do with other logfiles. Create them during installation like syslog log files. User can simply enable accounting. Nothing changes for existing installations. bluhm Index: distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi =================================================================== RCS file: /data/mirror/openbsd/cvs/src/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi,v retrieving revision 1.218 diff -u -p -r1.218 mi --- distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi 2 Dec 2019 02:45:18 -0000 1.218 +++ distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi 3 Nov 2020 16:55:31 -0000 @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ ./root/.login ./root/.profile ./root/.ssh/authorized_keys +./var/account/acct ./var/crash/minfree ./var/cron/at.deny ./var/cron/cron.deny
