/etc/hosts and /private/etc/hosts

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/etc/hosts and /private/etc/hosts #5

Closed crahan closed 6 years ago

crahan commented 6 years ago

Since /etc/ is a symbolic link to /private/etc/ on OS X, aren't /etc/hosts and /private/etc/hosts the same file? I'm not sure what is meant by:

! But there is local per User hosts file "/private/etc/hosts"

Traxes commented 6 years ago

Hi,

i added the change in https://github.com/ernw/hardening/commit/a8cff0307cac10f70a08586f6b578dfd5a4978fb

the comment were misleading since SIP restricts access to directories like /System /bin /sbin /usr and not /etc/ (The Symlink is a leftover from NextStep to mount FileSystems as Read-only and /private as writable).

Thanks for the hint.