From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 21: 2:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34D537B403 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 21:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37DAF28D67; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:02:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Admin/Manager Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: RE: Restrict user access on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000001c20aa5$c46f5f30$0264a8c0@3dmdomain.local> Message-ID: <20020605235934.Q45306-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Admin/Manager wrote: > Humm, Well not the answer I was looking for. My I should explain better. I would like to know is could change all systems only accessible like /etc/ /etc/named /var/ to only be readable buy root? Would this cause any problems? Thank you for you help. > Leroy I would say generally it is quite difficult to get in the way of the OS and influence bad things to happen... however, that being said, familiarize yourself with chmod and remember, you can leave things in their default, installed states/stati where certain binaries and directories are (as they ought to be) *executable* while not *readable* just remember that :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message