[3476] in Athena Bugs
/etc/nocreate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron M. Hoffmann)
Mon Oct 23 11:03:11 1989
From: hoffmann@BITSY.MIT.EDU (Ron M. Hoffmann)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 11:02:47 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The following is a "bug".
1. fsck generously removes /etc/nocreate on a whim.
2. the world can log in to a server.
Perhaps it would be better to reverse the sense of the
file, a "/etc/create" to enable logins, no file=no
public logins.
It appears, also, that the 6.2A mkserve script does not
automatically make an /etc/nocreate. I think that it's
a reasonable assumption that if someone is running the
mkserve script, they want it private too.
-Ron
ps. 6.2a vax server. Note that "grep create *" in the
current release /srvd/servers directory comes up empty.
-rmh
