From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 27 8:58:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D517037B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3541043E77 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from mukappabeta.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E51AF79; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:58:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D6BA196.5000304@mukappabeta.de> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:58:14 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/42053: /root incorrect permissions References: <200208271200.g7RC0ADb072126@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > On a historical note, a quick google throws up a reasonably old post showing > that permissions on /root have been 0755 for a long long time: > http://makeashorterlink.com/?D41235F91 The posting says "root directory" (i.e. "/"), where a mode of 0700 wouldn't make sense. Older Unix systems (and modern SVR4-based ones) don't have an extra home directory for the superuser account. I doubt that 2.10BSD has, although I'm not sure. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message