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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r361791 - head/etc/mtree
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To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 07:03:53 -0700 (PDT)
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> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 09:19:35AM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > In message <202006041604.054G4KAb098395@repo.freebsd.org>, Conrad Meyer
> > writes:
> > > New Revision: 361791
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361791
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Restrict default /root permissions
> > >   
> > > ...
> > > @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
> > >      ..
> > >      rescue
> > >      ..
> > > -    root
> > > +    root            mode=0750
> > >      ..
> > 
> > Recent CIS benchmarks recommend 0700.

Can you provide a pointer, I would like to understand how they
came to the conclusing that 0700 is more secuire than 0750.  I
can only think of one situation, in which a member of group wheel 
does not know the password for root.

> 
> Please, let's keep a reasonable balance between security and usability.
> I often visit /root as a regular user (wheel'ed), and 0700 would make
> it real PITA.

IIRC there is a review and long discussion on this already...

> ./danfe
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org