cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 24 10:01:49 PST 2004


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:22:56PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 23:16 22/02/2004, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:14:05PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> >> I wonder if the optimal solution would be to have
> >> /sbin/nologin compiled without syslog support and /usr/sbin/nologin
> >> built from the same source but with syslog support enabled.
> >
> >It sounds to me like the optimal solution would actually be to move it.
> 
>   Sure, if you want to confuse people who have spent over a decade
> expecting it to be in /sbin.  We've got to leave *something* in /sbin
> for at least the near future, even if it's minimalist.

Why not install a static nologin to /usr/sbin, and make /sbin/nologin a
symlink to /usr/sbin/nologin ?


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