Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:23:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: terry@lambert.org, sthaug@nethelp.no, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file Message-ID: <199707220023.RAA12174@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0wqQHZ-0002PY-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 21, 97 03:46:17 pm
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> : 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. This only argues for read-only export of / and /user FS's, as far as I can see, and not for root rather than bin ownership of files or directories themselves. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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