Re: potato /root permissions?
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 paulwade@greenbush.com wrote:
>
> > I would certainly remember if I chmod'ed it. Anyway, I just noticed
> > that my /root is 755. I'm not sure if the install did it or the updates.
>
> I believe that this is correct.
I don't think /root needs to be open.
>
> Did you do a fresh install, and then some updates? Or was this origianly a
> slink system that you upgraded?
This is a potato install from a CD set generated on Feb 18. Updates from
the archive applied since then.
>
> > Anyone else have this? It's certainly not the case on my slink systems
> > which are all 700.
>
> With these settings only root can cd to any of the root directories. I
> think everyone is supposed to be able to enter and read directories.
> The only directory off / that doesn't have read,execute permissions set
> for everyone is /root, which _is_ 700.
>
> I'm not sure how your slink system got that way. Is /etc 700 as well?
My slink systems have always had /root 700
/etc is 755 on all systems
I'm going to do an install on another system tonight and will be watching
for this.
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