Re: permissions of /etc/ppp
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:16:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I took a short look now, and I see that the file permissions are stricter,
> > and can't quite find a valid reason for 750 other than maintaining backwards
> > compatibility.
>
> Backwards compatability? All I can think of is it leaking out in a
> pap-secrets~ file with wrong perms, which would be the admin's problem.
All the editors I know save backup files with equally strict permissions as
the originals...
I was thinking more of things like additional options.ttyS1 and such files.
Not much stuff confidential there, but they _might_ have grown to depend on
the directory permission and put dip-group-eyes-only stuff in there.
However, there's a precedent for such a change, /root went from 700 to 755
and there was only minor complaining about that.
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