Re: execute permissions in /etc/init.d
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote:
> Is there a good reason why all the start stop functions in /etc/init.d
> are executable by anybody by default. It seems to me that this allows
> your average user to stop an important system service. Anyone have
> comments?
No it doesn't. Normal (i.e. non-root) users can only kill processes that
they own... which just about means "processes that they have started." So
/etc/init.d being executable by world is not a problem at all.
Try stopping one of these services (as a non-root user)... you'll see.
Christian
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