From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 14:42:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01624 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01607 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ac02699; 4 Jul 96 21:42 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id ab20286; 4 Jul 96 22:40 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01230; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:17:29 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:17:29 GMT Message-Id: <199607041417.OAA01230@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <201007032228.PAA24532@mistery.mcafee.com> (message from Jim Dennis on Sat, 3 Jul 110 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: src tree owners Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Cc line trimmed slightly] > > Something that just occurred to me - doesn't some network backup > > software require a .rhosts file for the user "bin"? If so, doesn't > > this leave the system source code potentially vulnerable? On second thoughts, isn't this what the "operator" user is for? (Sorry if I sound a bit clueless here, I use DOS floppies for backing up my system!) > I agree. I was thinking of going in and chown'ing those to > root.root or chmod'ing them them to 600. I like the suggestion of chgrp'ing them to "prog" and then putting everyone who needs to access them into that group. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/