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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Subject: proposed /sbin/init permission change
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objections to this change to /sbin/init/Makefile
so that /sbin/init is installed with normal (555) modes ?

Using mode 500 makes it unreadable from nfs-exported
filesystems (as those that one can use in a diskless environment).

There is no privacy issue with the content of /sbin/init
to justify making it unreadable, and the first two lines

        if (getuid() != 0)
                errx(1, "%s", strerror(EPERM));

prevent non-root execution anyways.

BTW this would apply to -stable as well.
I have already made this request multiple times over time
(i think the first time was back in 1999 when i started
working with diskless environments) with no answer.

	cheers
	luigi

> cvs diff -u Makefile 
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/init/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -r1.32 Makefile
--- Makefile    11 Jan 2005 14:34:29 -0000      1.32
+++ Makefile    22 Feb 2006 08:55:02 -0000
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 PROG=  init
 MAN=   init.8
 MLINKS=        init.8 securelevel.8
-BINMODE=500
 PRECIOUSPROG=
 INSTALLFLAGS=-b -B.bak
 WARNS?=        6