From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 26 23:41:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89364F2F for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD916FC for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108AE33C2A; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 2734C3981E; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:35:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: ASV Subject: Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root References: <1372282481.3268.27.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:35:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1372282481.3268.27.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> (asv@inhio.eu's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:34:41 +0200") Message-ID: <44ip10tpgx.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:41:31 -0000 ASV writes: > This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a > while now so I gotta ask. > > There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root > directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases > 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)???? By default, there's nothing secret in there, so 755 makes sense to me.