Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:30:00 +0100 From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin Directory Ownership Message-ID: <36A9B2B8.701439C0@muc.de> References: <199901230414.XAA02392@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"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 <http://www.pgp.net>; 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
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