In the last episode (Feb 01), Nerius Landys said: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I "chmod 700 /root", after > >> a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for > >> this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. > >> Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well designed (honestly, > >> no sarcasm here). > > > > It's something local to your machine; this doesn't happen on any machine > > I've used, and I can't find anything that could be configured for that. > > Perhaps I was mistaken about this happening after every reboot. Perhaps > it only happens when I upgrade my world (make buildworld, make > installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is > released). > > So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades?
I was going to point blame at mtree, but the file for the root filesystem ( /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist ) just lists /root without forcing a mode value. You could probably use either dtrace or the audit system to log exactly when the permissions get changed. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"