On Wed, 07 Aug 2002, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:39:02PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> >
> > > # ls -lad /root/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 31 18:25 /root/
> > >
> > > I wonder if /root/ shouldn't be accessible by root only per default? But
> > > in which package can I find this one? Should I make a bug-report or do
> > > you think this is normal? (It might be some kind of SuSE-remembrance
> > > from earlier days ;)
> >
> > This is not the first time this comes up.
> >
> > short version: /root 755 is no security risk and it wont get changed
> > either. If you want, set it to 0700 on your box.
> > long version: search the list archives (both -user and -devel will have
> > some hits I guess).
>
> IMHO at least it should be noticed somewhere in the instalation or
> something. Specially when it used to be 750 and there may be sensible
> data there.
It never (to my little knowledge) used to be 750 and upgrades don't
change it anyway.
yours,
peter
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