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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with 2.2-960130-SNAP
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:32:21 -0800
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> Yes.  See the chflags man page and the output of `ls -lo /sbin'.  ld.so
> and a few other files should also have been protected againsts removal
> by ordinary rm.  Of course, `mv /sbin /sbin-' shows that this protection
> is worthless.

Good point.  A `chflags schg /' might also not be a bad idea for the
truly security conscious, or is Bruce now going to show me how that's
useless too? :-)
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project