On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 09:05:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <si...@freebsd.org> writes: > > This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and > > simple solution.
> There is a simple solution that, while not bulletproof, would work well > enough in most cases: have 'make installworld' create /etc/issue, which > would look like this: > FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64/amd64 I think the idea of having 'make installworld' create something is good, but we should not hard-code policy by writing the information into a file that may be shown to unauthenticated users (such as by getty). A new file with a name=value format somewhat like /etc/lsb-release on Linux seems more appropriate. If the admin wants /etc/issue, /etc/rc.d/motd can create it. The new file is not a configuration file and tools like mergemaster and freebsd-update must not bother the admin about it. If all files under /etc are considered "configuration files", then perhaps a different location is better. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
