On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:39:02PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > > # ls -lad /root/ > > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 31 18:25 /root/ > > > > I wonder if /root/ shouldn't be accessible by root only per default? But > > in which package can I find this one? Should I make a bug-report or do > > you think this is normal? (It might be some kind of SuSE-remembrance > > from earlier days ;) > > This is not the first time this comes up. > > short version: /root 755 is no security risk and it wont get changed > either. If you want, set it to 0700 on your box. > long version: search the list archives (both -user and -devel will have > some hits I guess). > > HTH > yours, > peter > > -- > PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** > messages preferred. | : :' : The universal > | `. `' Operating System > http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/
IMHO at least it should be noticed somewhere in the instalation or something. Specially when it used to be 750 and there may be sensible data there. Regards. -- ... ___________________________________________________________ ... | /| |\ | | /-| Pedro Larroy Tovar. PiotR | http://omega.resa.es/piotr |-\ | | /--| No MS-Office attachments please. |--\ | o-|--| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--|-o | \-| finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public key and info |-/ | |...\|_________________________________________________________|/...|