On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:54:09PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Jeremy Gaddis said: > > > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > > default permissions of 700 on a clean > > install? > > Sorry, made a boo-boo when I wrote that. > I meant to ask why were the default > permissions *NOT* set to 700 on a clean > install? > > I have multiple Debian machines and just > today noticed that /root has default > permissions of 755. This was discussed at length on debian-devel, IIRC. Try search the archives at http://lists.debian.org/. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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