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Date:      Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:58:13 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /root permission reset on boot
Message-ID:  <44hbq0iy0q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <560f92641002011041x484518bdqc9828eff404254fb@mail.gmail.com> (Nerius Landys's message of "Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:41:33 -0800")
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Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> writes:

>>> 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?

Yes, that makes more sense.  Just change the setting in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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