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From: "wolfi"
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 05:41, Chris Herrnberger wrote:
Sorry to ask this as I should know this but how do you tell Yast to leave certain config files alone while not turning Yast off in general. Its been a while since i have had to do this.
Best and thanks
Chris H
Hi Chris,
In YaST there is an option system administration - change configuration file. Scroll until ENABLE_SUSECONFIG and change it to NO. If you want some config files to be 'write-protected', you should chmod them to 544 (or even 500). In this case (haven't checked it myself, though) not even a root-owned process like YaST should be able to write to this file.
Cheers ....
Wolfi
NOTE: permissions 500 will have no effect on root. The OS obeys root without permissions checking which is why it's so dangerous to do things as root. John