From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 23:22:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11482 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.9.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA11472 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id XAA03742; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:10:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:10:47 -0800 From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <199803040710.XAA03742@monk.via.net> To: tom@sdf.com Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From tom@sdf.com Tue Mar 3 22:57:24 1998 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 22:50:38 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Joe McGuckin cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED MIME-Version: 1.0 Also, is is possible to change permissions on "/"? I see that "/" contains a ".", so probably. That would break all kinds of non-root things. Tom ----- End Included Message ----- Holy cow Batman!!! That's it. Somehow, '/' was changed to 700. I would have never thought of that. Why exactly does this break the system? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message