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Re: Bug#102080: /boot permissions root.disk 2775 why?



On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:17:31AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> 
> > I've received a bug report requesting /boot to be made root.root and
> > mode 755 in base-files. This is currently root.disk and mode 2775.
> > Does anybody remember the reason for the current permissions?
> 
> I don't!  That's setgid right?

yes:  drwxrwsr-x root.disk

try as i might i can think of no practical purpose for this
whatsoever.  

> I think 0755 seems appropriate....

i sure think so owned by group root not disk too.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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