On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Note the 'grins' and ':)' in my comment. Obviously, it's of dubious merit. > > Obviously, I should have included more ":)"'s in my own message. > > > > Are you also worried that /var/log is not 700, too? > > > > Extremely, because I am the total idiot that you are treating me like. > > Paul, I don't think you are an idiot, and, I wasn't trying to treat you like > one. If you have been offended by anything I've said, please accept my > apologies.
Not offended. Apology accepted. But I will admit to being an idiot at times. > > > I merely posted this because I noticed it and wasn't sure if there were > > intentional changes involved along the way from slink to potato. This is > > the testing list. I did get one off-list reply saying that his potato and > > woody systems had /root as 700. > > But were they systems that had been installed as potato/woody, or slink and > then upgraded? > > I have yet to do a from-scratch potato install. I'll be watching it both ways - scratch and upgrade. I was starting do do a slink install tonight and got too many phone calls to get much done. > > The issue here is whether this is the expected behavior and if so whether > > it should also apply to upgrades from previous releases. Is it a bug or > > not? > > Honestly, I don't know. I merely replied to your post to point out that > there's a high chance that this is by design and not accident. Since slink > was the only release that ever shipped with /root as 700, potato installing > it as 755 is merely a return to earlier (and, to me, marginally preferable) > policy. Whatever the case, I would hope people are well-informed so they can change it to meet local needs. There are some sysadmins who don't think users need to be doing stuff like 'grep userdel /root/.bash_history'. Maybe not the best example but there are probably some better ones. Just the idea of users being able to snoop like that makes some sysadmins very nervous. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
