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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.


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