From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 8 14:40:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F6237BA54 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14QzjW-0007JV-00; Thu, 08 Feb 2001 22:40:10 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id C9A6D33968; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:29:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id E527612D59; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:29:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:29:57 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Erik Trulsson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root permissions after installworld Message-ID: <20010208232957.B3108@raggedclown.net> References: <20010208205656.A1992@student.uu.se> <20010208210738.A2090@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: <20010208210738.A2090@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:07:38PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:07:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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. That's a bit of a rigid rule. I use it for 2 things: - to leave little readmes and notes about things I need to remember that concern a root activity - I sometimes use it to test potentially dangerous scripts out with damage limitation .. Of course "use root only when you have to" is THE golden rule, but even Charlie & needs a home.. :) Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message