slink bug(?): /etc/limits permissions
Hi all, please see this excerpt from the man page for /etc/limits:
LIMITS(5) LIMITS(5)
NAME
limits - Resource limits definition
DESCRIPTION
The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE
defined config.h) describes the resource limits you wish
to impose. It should be owned by root and readable by
root account only.
However, the current permissions on this file are NOT in accordance with the
recommendation in the manual pages:
ls -l /etc/limits:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 Jul 17 1998 /etc/limits
I have not modified this file or its permissions, and Linux was not on this
machine on July 1998. :)
Isn't this a distribution bug?
(FWIW, the same condition exists on my friend's potato machine.)
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