From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 26 21:47:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880B370B for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:47:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ayan@ayan.net) Received: from mail-qc0-x233.google.com (mail-qc0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4B91EFF for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id e11so8716176qcx.10 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=1hsVxN1DY8sB1wTF14vKQhPn2Zg2aTxX5w5I10ULg24=; b=AZx+BECCgbTNnsdR0y7P/bbJpFiil01ACe2s9Q1Psbj4wAQzGWrLzHV5O005EVomZV k8M4Zo6YKTRwWqPZ7qMhqKAdvhNNtc5RTnO80g3U/M2sqYZEDMiuC7Rj7g70e+b+v/hc ugH630ef/qSf2PfhPltLfpxA9TnZubjvPP+hGZZF0nKbWD3OGOoNgg5PeT71EMXx8at6 Huu3kw8OjumNVkjXzYzT2UVaIHx6t4apUsshbH/28PRe1iAVE9OlrTVhUNZ8/8YYIAcL c5trSeCv0A1GG17pdl3Dt6wyx5yNccl8r5cwJKJ37IQVLnG5ps2PulklkKy2AjCR7VMa DiIQ== X-Received: by 10.49.14.161 with SMTP id q1mr7304344qec.50.1372283246407; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (cs-tor.bu.edu. [204.8.156.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 15sm556725qaa.9.2013.06.26.14.47.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51CB6166.3060703@ayan.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:47:18 +0000 From: Ayan George MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root References: <1372282481.3268.27.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> In-Reply-To: <1372282481.3268.27.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlLGxUgTk2rXv1Y7vf95hrf5cNlJYNVMO41TuNAMx9fHkcevYRzZaj+Z6SUR3qCAtGJrpfK X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:47:27 -0000 ASV: > This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a > while now so I gotta ask. > > There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root > directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases > 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)???? > I imagine / needs those permissions during installation but maybe they should be changed to something more desirable at post-install. What would you suggest -- maybe 555? -ayan