Josh Hurst wrote: > On 5/7/07, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > >But then we are back to the same problem we started with. Most would > > >agree that the current defaults are not "fine." > > > > No we're not back were we started; I strongly believe that existing > > users run an extremely large risk from anything dumped in /etc. > > In that case you are no longer allowed to update bash or ksh. Never > ever again. Freeze bash, freeze ksh and disallow any updates because > this involves the extremely large risk that users run into new > defaults set by upstream.
Erm, that's not correct. The first set are builtin defaults set+controlled by the upstream authors while the 2nd set (e.g. /etc/ksh.kshrc , /etc/bash.bashrc etc.) are defaults set+controlled by (Open-)Solaris. If the first set changes in any problematic way we could use the /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/ksh.kshrc files to "undo" any possible damage for the users. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
