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Re: Security of CFINPUTS


From: Greg Gallagher
Subject: Re: Security of CFINPUTS
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:59:52 -0500
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:46:44PM +0200, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> > 
> > So long as it is configurable, this is not a problem.  Then the package
> > maintainers for the various *nixes can set it how they like.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately the location of config files cannot be meaningfully
> made configurable, since that would require meta-config files, which
> would.... yeah. At some point an executive decision has to be made.
> And this always causes arguments.

Isn't this something that can be put in the "configure" script and the
default hard-coded based on what's passed on the command line?

./configure --prefix=/opt/cfengine --with-inputs=/var/lib/cfengine

;-)


-- 
Greg Gallagher
UNIX Systems Administrator
First Options Chicago .... (312) 362-3643



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