From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 8 12: 8: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BD537B6A8 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:44920 "HELO ertr1013.student.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:07:32 +0100 Received: (qmail 2106 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Feb 2001 20:07:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:07:38 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root permissions after installworld Message-ID: <20010208210738.A2090@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010208205656.A1992@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@JEAH.net on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:03:44PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:03:44PM -0600, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > 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.) > > Eh, well, I tend to disagree. In general, I don't want other users on my > box(es) reading data in home directories other than their own. True, but since you shouldn't be doing anything as root other than those things that require root there shouldn't be any personal stuff in /root. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message