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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2020 14:58:09 +0100
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Gordon Bergling <gbergling@googlemail.com>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Subject:   Re: More secure permissions for /root and /etc/sysctl.conf
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Ben Woods wrote on 2020/02/02 02:46:

[...]
> DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 = 700
> HardenedBSD build 104 = 755
> NetBSD 9.0 RC1 = 755
> OpenBSD 6.6 = 700
> 
> For what it's worth, I am broadly supportive of this because I see no
> reason for /root to be world readable.

+1

I see no reason for world readable /root too.
We always set user's homes to 0700 (subdirs of /usr/home).

Miroslav Lachman



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