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Date:      Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:41:33 -0800
From:      Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /root permission reset on boot
Message-ID:  <560f92641002011041x484518bdqc9828eff404254fb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44ljfc2a2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <560f92641001312208r1af8a8a2j2be83fe231ad8d74@mail.gmail.com> <44ljfc2a2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I "chmod 700 /root",
>> after a reboot it goes back to permission 755.
>> 1. What's the reason for this?  There must be a good reason and I
>> would like to know it.  Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is
>> well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here).
>
> It's something local to your machine; this doesn't happen on any machine
> I've used, and I can't find anything that could be configured for that.

Perhaps I was mistaken about this happening after every reboot.
Perhaps it only happens when I upgrade my world (make buildworld, make
installworld, etc.).  I do this often (every time a release patch is
released).

So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades?



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