Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:18:49PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Samba has it's smbpasswd file that is written by network password changes, and
> a few other writable files.
smpasswd is more like /etc/passwd.
It could perhaps be argued that maybe it should go under /var/lib.
In any case, smbpasswd isn't a requirement for using a samba server,
I believe you can use network based authentication...
> Please let me know when you've fixed sendmail, hotplug, ntpd, and samba, then
> I'll update my SE Linux policy accordingly and give you a list of other
> programs with write access.
I wouldn't complain if nobody updates sendmail...
Why does hotplug need to be changed?
/etc/ntp.drift and/or /etc/adjtime might be a problem, I gather not only
to they need to be writable at boot time, but the state needs to be
preserved across boots.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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