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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file 
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:46:17 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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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