Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd001@pc.jgr.de, Eirik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories Message-ID: <87ab7hpb9d.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20090320013025.W95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> (Ian Smith's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 %2B1100 (EST)") References: <200903152350.n2FNoGnk006601@pc.jgr.de> <253C16FF-5287-4941-8DFB-AB07D57E3C90@anduin.net> <871vsub0bf.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090320013025.W95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> This is correct. `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :) > > Absolutely - but I can't find where it(7) actually says that? It's more or less a rite of passage for FreeBSD admins, like "don't run `rm -fr /' if you are unsure of what it does". For a better reason see the post by Nikos Ntarmos and my reply to that :-)
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