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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> 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?

  It would mean that non-root users aren't allow to read any files,
anywhere.

  It should not be surprising, as this is how permissions work everywhere.

> Joe

Tom


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