Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 21:43:44 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@googlemail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> Subject: Re: More secure permissions for /root and /etc/sysctl.conf Message-ID: <CAOc73CCXKKLos9%2BTQeD8EFMH8RAinRZmc6pVC4Onkoo8WvCSYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CCYfbLvY%2BegqWruGbP86h_jLryTDvFQ6d4F4_RGQ%2BmUxw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4584E3BE-F412-4902-AFB9-CAE88D660ED1@googlemail.com> <202002011904.011J4rBB079499@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <CAOc73CCYfbLvY%2BegqWruGbP86h_jLryTDvFQ6d4F4_RGQ%2BmUxw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 09:46, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 03:05, Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > >> c) The default for home directories in all the BSD's I looked at >> are 755. >> >> d) All distributions I looked at ship /root as 755. This would be >> FreeBSD as the odd man out. >> > > I just spun up a few other BSD's to check this, and found the following > for /root permissions: > > DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 = 700 > HardenedBSD build 104 = 755 > NetBSD 9.0 RC1 = 755 > OpenBSD 6.6 = 700 > In case anyone is interested, I have also had a look at a few popular Linux distributions, and found the following for /root permissions: ArchLinux 2020.02.01 = 700 CentOS 8 = 550 Debian 10 = 700 Fedora 31 = 550 Slackware 14.2 = 710 Ubuntu 19.10 = 700 Regards, Ben
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