Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 23:05:57 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Owner of system directories Message-ID: <199412242205.XAA19929@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199412222141.WAA11874@keltia.frmug.fr.net> from "Ollivier Robert" at Dec 22, 94 10:41:34 pm
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As Ollivier Robert wrote:
|
| In extenso, every program should belong to root too... What do you people
| think about it ?
I personally do not like it. I'm a friend of ``uucp'', ``news'',
``bin'' etc. file ownership and a fine-grain group policy, and usually
all the above accounts on my machines do have passwords, so i don't
have to run as super-user for too long.
I think the `root'-only files' problem is only specific for NFS
servers supplying security-relevant files to an audience which is
larger than e.g. a local (sub-)net. I don't believe this would cover
the majority of the systems in use.
Just my personal HO.
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