Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:10:31 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Gordon Bergling <gbergling@googlemail.com>, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Subject: Re: More secure permissions for /root and /etc/sysctl.conf Message-ID: <31EF8F5F-75D5-4EFB-A6DA-10C0807BF29B@cschubert.com> In-Reply-To: <202002021808.012I8CNm083835@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202002021808.012I8CNm083835@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On February 2, 2020 10:08:12 AM PST, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: >[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] >> Ben Woods wrote on 2020/02/02 02:46: >> >> [...] >> > DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 = 700 >> > HardenedBSD build 104 = 755 >> > NetBSD 9.0 RC1 = 755 >> > OpenBSD 6.6 = 700 >> > >> > For what it's worth, I am broadly supportive of this because I see >no >> > reason for /root to be world readable. >> >> +1 >> >> I see no reason for world readable /root too. >> We always set user's homes to 0700 (subdirs of /usr/home). > >Who is "We" in this context? > >FreeBSD's default for home directories is 755. > >And as I have stated before anyone who is taking group rx off >of /root is fooling themselves as that just creates pain for >members of group wheel who now needlessly need to su to >see /root's files. > >If you have issues with group wheel being able to read /root >you have far far bigger problems that need addressed than >a simple chmod g-rw /root is going to fix. Agreed. -- Pardon the typos and autocorrect, small keyboard in use. Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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