Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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From: Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008/5/7
Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation
To: Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/5/6 Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote:
To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be
used.
I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges.
I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer
(OK, I do have them stored in a nice secured place if I ever do need
them).
Cheers,
-j
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In fact, I use sudo for managing too. My question is not about
sudo itself, it's about the possible risks (if any) of having a
default installation (FreeBSD7-RELEASE) which assigns ownership of the
root folder to root:wheel, thus allowing anyone with wheel privileges
be able to see (and copy btw) root folder contents.
I still not get the point.. If the files are create the default is a
umask of 022 anway. So if you want to protect your files in the root
folder to get accessed, use umask 066 and maybe chmod 700 /root.
Perhaps more to the point of the question, there is nothing in /root
on a default system which has any need of being kept secret.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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