Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 23:25:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> Cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED Message-ID: <199803040725.XAA20116@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 23:10:47 PST." <199803040710.XAA03742@monk.via.net>
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> > > ----- Begin Included Message ----- > > >From tom@sdf.com Tue Mar 3 22:57:24 1998 > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 22:50:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> > To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> > cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > Also, is is possible to change permissions on "/"? I see that "/" > contains a ".", so probably. That would break all kinds of non-root > things. > > Tom > > ----- End Included Message ----- > > > Holy cow Batman!!! That's it. Somehow, '/' was changed to 700. You probably did something like # cd /root # chmod 0700 .* > I would have never thought of that. > > Why exactly does this break the system? It means that nothing can perform directory lookups anywhere unless it's running as root, because it can't traverse down from /. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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