From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 23 11:05:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A20966 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 172E720A4 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C595E517 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.973 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.973 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.025, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id xHxUJMQf0RHT for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:25 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c224-156-70-80.bjare.net [80.70.156.224]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911FF5E4FD for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <52401DDF.9080502@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:23 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Subject: What is Negative permissions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:05:07 -0000 In the daily security run I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking negative group permissions: 3791965 -rwxr--r-x 1 admin wheel 172 Mar 9 10:59:55 2011 /usr/home/admin/bin/noip_update.sh Is it just a reminder that the group has no x permissions or should I give those permissions? Thanks /Leslie