Re: root's home world readable
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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