From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 14 23:16:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03396 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03390 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.7.6/8.6.9) id QAA29647; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:11:53 +1000 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:11:53 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199610150611.QAA29647@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> And, back to the original question: any objection in changing >> /sbin/init permissions to 0555 ? > >I hesitate to decide this without any further opinions... Complete set of standard executables with annoying permissions in -current: -r-x------ 1 bin bin 20480 Oct 2 04:24 /sbin/init -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 12288 Oct 2 04:26 /sbin/shutdown ---s--x--x 2 root bin 286720 Oct 2 04:19 /usr/bin/sperl4.036 ---s--x--x 2 root bin 286720 Oct 2 04:19 /usr/bin/suidperl -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp uucp 90112 Oct 2 04:09 /usr/libexec/uucp/uuxqt -r-x------ 1 bin bin 12288 Oct 2 04:42 /usr/sbin/watch The missing permissions for `watch' make it unusable by root if /usr is nfs-mounted without maproot=0. Bruce