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To: Fahad <fahad@budacom.net>
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Subject: Re: / owned by bin causes sshd to complain bad ownership 
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Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Fahad <fahad@budacom.net> 
> Date:		Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:24:55 -0700 
> Message-id:	<4FE4AA67.4060900@budacom.net> 

Fahad wrote:
> As Mark put it, if everything is owned by bin you would need to be root 
> to do anything.

False. most bins have o+rx eg

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8680 Jun 22 20:08 /usr/bin/wc*


Cheers,
Julian
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