From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 8 12: 4:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1BE37B6A3 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f18K3oY09330; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:03:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris@JEAH.net) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:03:44 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Byrnes To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Subject: Re: /root permissions after installworld In-Reply-To: <20010208205656.A1992@student.uu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't know why the permissions are the way they are but since there > shouldn't be anything important in /root it shouldn't be any security risk. > (If you have stuff in /root that other people shouldn't be able to read you > are probably doing something wrong.) Eh, well, I tend to disagree. In general, I don't want other users on my box(es) reading data in home directories other than their own. > Erik Trulsson -- Chris Byrnes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message