From owner-freebsd-security Sun Apr 2 09:19:49 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA03443 for security-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:19:49 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA03437 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:19:47 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id SAA21858 ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:20:02 +0200 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25615; Sun, 2 Apr 95 18:19:28 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <9504021619.AA25615@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: root owning everything To: pst@Shockwave.COM (Paul Traina) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:19:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: security@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504011850.KAA15088@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Apr 1, 95 10:50:37 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development ctm#480 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 428 Sender: security-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Except for setuid files, the majority of files in / and /usr should be owned > by root, not bin, so that I can't nfsmount a volume read-write and su to > bin and have a party. My feelings too for a long time. Every directory on my machine are owned by root for the same reason. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #7: Thu Mar 23 00:28:31 MET 1995