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Date:        Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:56:56 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /root permissions after installworld
Message-ID:  <20010208205656.A1992@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010208191456.A24037@dnepr.net>; from land@dnepr.net on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:14:57PM %2B0200
References:  <20010208191456.A24037@dnepr.net>

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:14:57PM +0200, Andrey Lakhno wrote:
> Hi !
> 
>   Why "make installworld" changes /root permissions to 755 ?
>   It is insecure to have /root directory world readable.

I don't know why the permissions are the way they are but since there
shouldn't be anything important in /root it shouldn't be any security risk.
(If you have stuff in /root that other people shouldn't be able to read you
are probably doing something wrong.)


-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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