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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 1995 18:00:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Access rights on /sbin/init and other files
Message-ID:  <199506301600.SAA03660@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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What is the point of having the following access rights ?

-r-x------   1 bin   bin       151552 Jun 10 12:04 /sbin/init
-r-x------   1 bin   bin        12288 Jun 10 12:04 /usr/sbin/watch

To me it makes no sense to deny read/execute permission to standard
executables. They don't contain critical data, are not SUID/SGID,
and any user can get a copy of them anyways, from the distribution.

Can we change the modes to 555 in future snapshots/distributions ?

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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