Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:58:13 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /root permission reset on boot Message-ID: <44hbq0iy0q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <560f92641002011041x484518bdqc9828eff404254fb@mail.gmail.com> (Nerius Landys's message of "Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:41:33 -0800") References: <560f92641001312208r1af8a8a2j2be83fe231ad8d74@mail.gmail.com> <44ljfc2a2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <560f92641002011041x484518bdqc9828eff404254fb@mail.gmail.com>
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Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> writes: >>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I "chmod 700 /root", >>> after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. >>> 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I >>> would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is >>> well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here). >> >> It's something local to your machine; this doesn't happen on any machine >> I've used, and I can't find anything that could be configured for that. > > Perhaps I was mistaken about this happening after every reboot. > Perhaps it only happens when I upgrade my world (make buildworld, make > installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is > released). > > So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades? Yes, that makes more sense. Just change the setting in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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