On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:48:56AM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > 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.
That's a particularly uncompelling argument. Kris
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