[Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: Bug 227771: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:15:11 -0700 
 > From: Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>

> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:23 -0800, Pete Rowley wrote:

>> > The debian folks (who take FHS seriously) won't buy that.  The real test
>> > is the ability to have a read only /etc.  This sounds like a /var/lib
>> > thing.  
>> >
>> > Before you get into pain over this, I suggest finding a FHS expert.
>> >   
> Does Debian forbid cfengine?  webmin?  If you do need to occasionally 
> edit a config file, do you have to change the permissions on /etc to 
> read-write, then change it back?

For a lot of secure installs, yes, this is what's done.

 > Note that even files such as
> /etc/fstab can be dynamic as devices/filesystems are dynamically 
> mounted/unmounted.

Actually fstab is just a static file. You might be thinking of mtab. Some of 
these things just get symlinked to /var/run which is writable.

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