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Date:        Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:07:38 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /root permissions after installworld
Message-ID:  <20010208210738.A2090@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102081401450.7544-100000@awww.jeah.net>; from chris@JEAH.net on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:03:44PM -0600
References:  <20010208205656.A1992@student.uu.se> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102081401450.7544-100000@awww.jeah.net>

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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.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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