Subject: Re: Ifconfig
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/25/2006 18:20:54
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:53:54PM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:36:15 +0100
> joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> > I think the default listening of crypto keys and (in the future) CARP
> > passwords should be disabled,
>
> I am not sure I understand you here.
> Do you mean ifconfig should not show keys by default if not asked to?
Yes, exactly. I know that it doesn't do that for !root, simply because
!root doesn't have permissions to read that data at all.
> >before ifconfig -a can be the default.
>
> Ifconfig -a is already default. The point is to have ifconfig without any flag
> to behave as if it was given -a.
That's what I meant. "Behave as if -a was specified".
Joerg