Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:57:08 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Martin Vana <martin.vana@vslib.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /root default permisions Message-ID: <20040915085708.GB23645@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <003101c49aa2$f817b820$2a88ebd5@Vanovci> References: <003101c49aa2$f817b820$2a88ebd5@Vanovci>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Martin Vana wrote:
> I installed FBSD 5.3 Beta 3 - Default install, and as a regular user
> I can 'cat /root/.cshrc' or any other file in admin's directory?
> is it a bug?
No, that's not wrong. The /root directory should be mode 755, which
means anyone can chdir to it, or list the contents. In a freshly
installed system there isn't anything in that directory where
disclosure of file contents would be greatly deleterious to security.
The important thing is that no-one other than root can *write* to that
directory.
Cheers,
Matthew
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