Re: root's home world readable
Well, that's *BSD security. :)
I'll always thinking about installing some
OpenBSD boxes in my network.
gotta try. thanks for the tip.
- Ivo
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:48, Sean Whitney wrote:
> bash-2.05$ uname -a
> OpenBSD www 3.0 GENERIC#27 sparc64
>
>
> drwx------ 3 root wheel 512 Jan 24 22:19 root
>
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 13:49, Jacques Lav!gnotte hammered on some keys:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:54:03PM +0100, eim wrote:
> > > Hallo debian-sec folks,
> > >
> > > While I was checking up some configurations,
> > > I've noticed that the root's home directory /root
> > > is world readable...
> > >
> > > $ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0k Jan 21 15:33 root
> > >
> > > This seems to be Debian's default configuration,
> > > because also on other Potato boxes I've found that
> > > same configuration.
> > >
> > > Well, as far as I can remember from the Slackware times,
> > > root's home dir wasn't world readable by default.
> >
> > Hummmm.... let me see :
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > NetBSD netbsd 1.5.2 NetBSD
> >
> > $ ls -la /root
> > total 2276
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Dec 12 22:31 .
> >
> >
> > Huh :-)
> >
> > Jacques
>
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