Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Install Permissions Message-ID: <199709040624.XAA27183@burka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903211022.21074B-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at "Sep 3, 97 09:13:56 pm"
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Jamil J. Weatherbee writes: > > This is just a personal opinion, and maybye it is uneducated, but is there > really some reason for the kernel to be installed chmod 555, wouldn't 544 > or even maybye 444 do (I'm not to familiar with the bootloader, I would > guess that it doesn't execute /kernel in the same way a coff binary is > executed so permissions probably don't matter hunh?) Perhaps even 550 or 540 with group kmem or something. > > -- dima
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