Ron Johnson said on Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:21:57PM -0500:
> > But why is it necessary to give this permission to users in general?
>
> Not only does /etc/init.d/inetd have world execute permission,
> but also:
> $ dir /usr/sbin/inetd /usr/bin/rpcinfo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10052 Mar 21 10:19 /usr/bin/rpcinfo*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18540 Nov 18 2001 /usr/sbin/inetd*
>
> Would this be something that one would do when only localhost
> network operation is desired?
It doesn't matter. Everything in /usr/{bin,sbin} is world executable. It
doesn't matter, since stuff that only root should do either restricted by the
kernel, or by other means (file read/write permissions, passwords, etc).
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