Hi, On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 22:22, tluxt2@yahoo.com wrote: > I think that is a bad default. It provides a way that non root users have > access to some root information - by default. Perhaps that information should > not be available to non root users. > > So, by default, non root users shouldn't be given access to such things. So, > by default, those bits should be off. umask can do this. Any sysadmin running a multiuser system who doesn't know how to use umask has far worse problems than leaving files open to read. 755 seems like a fairly reasonable default to me. (is that what's it's set to? I haven't checked!) Andrew
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