Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:58:14 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/42053: /root incorrect permissions Message-ID: <3D6BA196.5000304@mukappabeta.de> References: <200208271200.g7RC0ADb072126@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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
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