netbsd-bugs: Re: bin/271: /etc/motd is world writable

Subject: Re: bin/271: /etc/motd is world writable
To: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/02/1994 19:33:15

> 	After updating the system name/version in /etc/motd, rc.local
> 	proceeds to make it world writable.

that's a feature, not a bug.  It was shipped that way from UCB, and
it seems rational to me.

There's a reason it's in rc.local.


cgd

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