Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 11:28:49 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: root owning everything Message-ID: <199504011928.LAA15637@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 1995 05:15:53 %2B1000." <199504011915.FAA18492@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: root owning everything >Except for setuid files, the majority of files in / and /usr should be owned >by root, not bin, so that I can't nfsmount a volume read-write and su to >bin and have a party. >An alternative would be to map uid bin to nobody the same way root is done. I don't like files owned by root. They force me to run as root too much. The CSRG Makefiles seem to have the same policy as we have (almost everything owned by bin). How is this problem traditionally handled? Bruce read only mounts and a lot of praying
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