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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:59:01 -0700
From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission
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> From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Mon Oct 14 15:48:59 1996
> From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
> Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission
> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:33:31 +0200 (MET DST)
> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
>
> As Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > And, back to the original question: any objection in changing
> > /sbin/init permissions to 0555 ?
>
> I hesitate to decide this without any further opinions...
>

Just for the sake of paranoia, a further opinion,

$ ls -l /sbin/init
-r-x------  1 root  bin  143360 Jul 27 14:06 /sbin/init

This is on a public box that is reasonably tight. It's also a suggestion
that folks can change file permissions on systems that they control.
--
Mike Murphy  mrm@Mole.ORG  +1 619 598 5874
Better is the enemy of Good