Julian Elischer wrote: > As terry knows of course, the Interjet > had the following /etc/symlinks: (excuse linewrap) > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Mr 28 2001 crontab@ -> > /writable/system/crontab > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 18 Mr 28 2001 group@ -> > /writable/system/group
[ ... ] > the single root+usr partition is mounted read-only. Yes, but appealing to a product I had something to do with, even if that organization wasn't mine in particular, makes a much less powerful argument. The other thing that's a bit painful about that argument is that the symlinks failed to operate as expected for the master.passwd, if the / was mounted read/write. I count this as a bug in the password database generation code, but it should be noted that it can be a problem (e.g the symlink is renamed to the backup, and the replacement file is created in /etc; it does the right thing, if the symlink is read-only, though...). 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
