From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 14:10: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A37514F36 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a010.otenet.gr [195.167.115.10]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA04247 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 00:09:49 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 4945 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 1999 12:11:45 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission denied when rebuilding locate db References: <199910172018.QAA24302@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 18 Oct 1999 15:11:45 +0300 In-Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes"'s message of "Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:19:50 -0400" Message-ID: <864sfoswam.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Francisco Reyes" writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:44:02 -0400, Edirol wrote: > > /root was "750" so this is probably the case. > This must be a bug. I can't think of any good reason to have /root "755" I can think of one. The users that are not in the group of `root' will still be able to `chdir / ' unless you're truly paranoid about them seeing what's in your root directory. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message