On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 11:42:45PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Therefore I think that it is better to leave them mode 444 so a user > > (educated by Slackware) will find little more difficult to modify them > > (mode 444 should make him think that that file shouldn't be modifyed) > > I don't think that this is a good solution. (The user would have to be > root anyways, to edit these files, but root can also edit 444 files very > easily.) >
I don't know of emacs, but in vi you have to _force_ it to overwrite the file (being root), so I was suggesting to put in policy what we are already using (the large part of that dir has mode 444) because is a nice obstacle to people wanting to do things in the wrong way. When they have to _force_ writing they cannot say "I didn't noticed that is wasn't writable". Our policy already say "don't edit that file"; leaving it mode 444 is a way to assert the current policy. fab -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Líder Minimo del Pluto - Debian Developer & Happy Debian User | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E > more than 34 months are needed to get rid of the millennium. [me]
