From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 14:56:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E1337B408 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a125.otenet.gr [212.205.215.125]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f92LuYI24303 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:56:34 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f92IvZq13259; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:57:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:57:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: default Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: file permission question Message-ID: <20011002215735.B13028@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG default wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the help... guess I'll leave those files as is... > > I've also changed the permissions on the commands/progs here: > > finger > last > lynx (just don't like other ppl usin it... ) $ cd ~/compile $ tar xzvf ~/ftp/lynx.tar.gz $ cd lynx $ [ configure --prefix="$HOME" ; make ; make install ] Anyone with a home directory and access to the compiler can build their own custom versions of utilities like lynx. There is not much point in having in your system software whose source is freely available on the net, and trying to restrict people from using it by changing permissions. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message