On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:32:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns 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? > > The only guess I could make is so that someone in group disk could run > lilo, and write the boot.0303 files to /boot. anyone in group disk is as good as a uid=0 account anyway so that doesn't seem useful to me. also doesn't lilo need root for some other reason? it seems that i could never make lilo floppies except as root even when in group floppy... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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