From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 19 11:20:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05896 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 11:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05891 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 11:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA00487 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:20:07 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id UAA04468 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:19:53 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.6/keltia-uucp-2.9) id TAA06347; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970719195557.20490@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:55:57 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file References: <19970719120826.19772@gtn.com> <15406.869308066@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <15406.869308066@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 12:27:46PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3461 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to sthaug@nethelp.no: > Yes, but the question stands - why is it setup this way? What is gained > by having binaries (and important directories) owned by bin instead of > root? See the archive of at least hackers & security for many discussions about this. I've patched by bsd.own.mk and mtree/* files to makes everything owned by root.wheel. Nothing is gained IMO by using bin.bin and it is making easier to put a trojan somewhere. Patch available. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #22: Sun Jul 13 22:07:09 CEST 1997