From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 19:23:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638521065675 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9228FC1E for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:23:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9B2EB5753; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:47 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D1145088; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:46 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xinWZQ0el9eK; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl38-146.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.165.146]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF8C4503F; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2JJNjhq017081; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2JJNgoU017080; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ian Smith References: <200903152350.n2FNoGnk006601@pc.jgr.de> <253C16FF-5287-4941-8DFB-AB07D57E3C90@anduin.net> <871vsub0bf.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090320013025.W95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090320013025.W95588@sola.nimnet.asn.au> (Ian Smith's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 +1100 (EST)") Message-ID: <87ab7hpb9d.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:35:32 +0000 Cc: freebsd001@pc.jgr.de, Eirik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8verby?= , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:23:48 -0000 On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith 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 :-)