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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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 Ivo Marino                    eim@eimbox.org
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