[3479] in Athena Bugs
Re: /etc/nocreate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 23 13:34:08 1989
From: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 12:09:11 -0400
To: hoffmann@BITSY.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ron M. Hoffmann's message of Mon, 23 Oct 89 11:02:47 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
From: hoffmann@BITSY.MIT.EDU (Ron M. Hoffmann)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 11:02:47 -0400
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
In /etc/rc.conf, there is a variable "NOCREATE", that controls the
creation/destruction of this file during boot-time. When this went into
effect, the variable was first set to the current state of the machine.
Thus, your concern has been addressed (or this may be the cause of your
problem, if the variable is set incorrectly).
-Richard
