Hi Julian,
you played Devil's advocate well actually as I don't know which idea
would be more audacious, letting httpd access files from your root dir
or exporting /root via nfs. :)
Both of them sound more like a lab scenario than a real one.
I understand that launching a chmod 700 /root it's a
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, ASV wrote:
Hi Julian,
you played Devil's advocate well actually as I don't know which idea
would be more audacious, letting httpd access files from your root dir
or exporting /root via nfs. :)
Both of them sound more like a lab scenario than a real one.
A diskless
Hi, Reference:
From: ASV a...@inhio.eu
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200
[ I jhs@ reverted asv@'s top post to bottom post ]
On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 01:47 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi, Reference:
From: ASV a...@inhio.eu
Date: Thu, 27
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Before we might ask (via send-pr) for it to be commited,
we should various of us run
chmod 750 /root;chown root:wheel /root
give it a couple of months to see if problems.
Done years ago:
drwxr-x--- 7 root wheel 512
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
( I'd guess OpenBSD might go for a tighter /root though, as they're
supposedly keen on security. )
Currently I've got no OpenBSD installation at hand to verify,
but I _assume_ they still have
Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com writes:
jb.1234abcd at gmail.com 's ref to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578470
relates to Linux upgrade procedures /root
I don't see it affects how we should perceive an idealised Unix.
The upgrade was a canary that told the user
Thanks for your reply Polytropon,
I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the
dynamics related to permissions, many of them are common to many
Unices.
I agree that the installer doesn't put anything secret but as a home dir
for the root user it's highly likely that
Hi, Reference:
From: ASV a...@inhio.eu
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:20 +0200
ASV wrote:
Thanks for your reply Polytropon,
I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the
dynamics related to permissions, many of them are common to many
Unices.
I
ASV asv at inhio.eu writes:
Mine
is just a concern about these permission defaults which look to me a bit
too relaxed and cannot find yet a reason why not to restrict it.
After all I believe having good default settings may make the difference
in some circumstances and/or save time.
I
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a
while now so I gotta ask.
There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root
directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases
8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)
Thanks in advance.
ASV:
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a
while now so I gotta ask.
There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root
directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases
8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)
I imagine / needs those
On 06/26/13 15:47, Ayan George wrote:
ASV:
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a
while now so I gotta ask.
There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root
directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases
ASV a...@inhio.eu writes:
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a
while now so I gotta ask.
There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root
directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases
8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)
By default,
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:34:41 +0200, ASV wrote:
There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root
directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases
8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)
This is the default permission for user directories, as root
is considered a user in this
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