From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 26 18: 0: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D607D37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CEC43E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7R105JU060253 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7R105Vs060250; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208270100.g7R105Vs060250@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: i386/42053: /root incorrect permissions Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/42053; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Sean Lewis Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/42053: /root incorrect permissions Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:50:45 +0300 On 2002-08-26 17:10 +0000, Sean Lewis wrote: > >Description: > [sml@subterrain][/] ls -ld root > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 24 15:15 root > > >Fix: > chmod 700 /root in installworld scripts. It's not like you're letting hackers find out stuff with this. You can always keep critical things under /root/foo where foo is chmoded to 0700. Is there really a point in changing the permissions to be more right? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message