On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > i guess i wrongly assumed that a distribution that's usually > somewhat sane would have somewhat sane permissions on a directory > such as /root, which i consider "sensitive", so to speak.
This topic comes up fairly regularly. On Debian lists and elsewhere.
Somebody just recently posted a similar complaint about NetBSD on one of
their lists.
The thing is, nobody has ever offered a compelling reason for changing
the default. By default there's certainly nothing secret in that
directory. You're certainly free chmod it.
Personally, I don't see why you'd need to keep anything in that
directory at all. Scripts and things like that should go in
/usr/local/{bin|sbin} or some other easily deduced, fairly standard
location to make life easier on the next guy in the event that you end
up passing admin duties on to somebody else.
noah
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