Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:46:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file Message-ID: <E0wqQHZ-0002PY-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:06:45 PDT." <199707212106.OAA11898@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199707212106.OAA11898@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199707212106.OAA11898@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert writes: : Can you please explain how root ownership makes something more secure? Files owned by root are harder to change via NFS than files owned by bin. root access n NFS is generally blocked, but no so with other, non-zero uids. Warner
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