From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jan 23 03:31:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16122 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:31:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colin.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA16081 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <140570-1>; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:30:53 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA11087; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:30:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from abraxas(192.168.42.5) by morranon via smap (V2.1) id xma011085; Sat, 23 Jan 99 12:30:16 +0100 Message-ID: <36A9B2B8.701439C0@muc.de> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:30:00 +0100 From: Lutz Albers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com CC: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin Directory Ownership References: <199901230414.XAA02392@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > I have noticed that /usr/bin has the ownership of user 'bin' and group > 'bin.' This is in spite of the fact that I count more than 2 dozen > commands onwed by root that are installed by the standard FreeBSD > installation tools or ports. In addition, /usr/libexec and /usr/sbin > (!!!) are owned by bin but contain root owned executables. > > Am I being over protective? Is there a problem with my installation? > Do I need to relax? Which version of FreeBSD you're running ? On my FreeBSD-3.0-CURRENT box this directory is owned by root.wheel: lutz@abraxas[~] > ls -ld /usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6656 Jan 21 19:43 /usr/bin lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message