Re: Use of /private
Re: Use of /private
- Subject: Re: Use of /private
- From: Shantonu Sen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:58:44 -0700
/private has always existed on Mac OS X, and is a vestige of network rooting support from NeXTSTEP.
The paths logged by the auditing subsystem (should have) always been after pathname translation, and be the equivalent of a realpath(3)-ed path on the input paths. Are you saying this is a regression from Leopard or a previous release?
Shantonu Sen
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On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
> In Snow Leopard's audit trails I see a lot of accesses to paths that begin with "private", like "/private/etc/security" instead of just "/etc/security". I see that "/etc", "/tmp", and "/var" are all symbolic links to their equivalents inside "/private".
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> Is there some new behavior to the system because of the use of the "/private" directory?
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> Todd
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