Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: File flags (LONG)
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-security
Date: 02/03/1999 19:43:42
In some email I received from Jason Thorpe, sie wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:27:43 -0800 (PST) 
>  "Eduardo E. Horvath" <eeh@one-o.com> wrote:
> 
>  > What about having a separate:
>  > 
>  > 	/etc/mtree/NetBSD.secure
>  > 
>  > and
>  > 
>  > 	/etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
>  > 
>  > instead of separate flags?  It would seem a bit more flexible.
> 
> ....because then you have to maintain two files, and that's harder?

Is it ?  I think once you've done the initial ground work, it shouldn't
be too hard to keep them in sync.

What if those files should be "built" from a master file ? ;)

On a related note, is NetBSD likely to ship with more than one
nsswitch.conf files as does Solaris ?

Darren