Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:30:21 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sbin/init mode 500? Message-ID: <22950.940411821@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:27:04 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910192225230.32070-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:27:04 -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: > Why is /sbin/init installed with mode 500? What harm could possibly > come from making it 555 like almost everything else in /sbin? Or at > least 544? > > Likewise, /sbin/shutdown is not world readable. Is there any reason for > this? I'm only answering because nobody else has offered you anything better yet: They've been that way since they were imported from BSD 4.4 Lite :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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