On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:45:14PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > > default permissions of 700 on a clean > > install? > > Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't want any > user's home directory to be world-readable.
Questionable on the "any user" part (if it was clear-cut 'should not be world-readable', why does debian default to 755 for non-root users?), but agreed that root's should be locked down, since it's somewhat likely to contain system-sensitive files. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
