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/.

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Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                            http://ertius.org/

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