On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: > Is there a good reason why all the start stop functions in /etc/init.d > are executable by anybody by default. It seems to me that this allows > your average user to stop an important system service. Anyone have > comments?
No it doesn't. Normal (i.e. non-root) users can only kill processes that they own... which just about means "processes that they have started." So /etc/init.d being executable by world is not a problem at all. Try stopping one of these services (as a non-root user)... you'll see. Christian
