Bug#514794: private /root permissions

2009-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'd also vote for having /root set to 0700. The default should always be the most secure (especially for root),... a user that want's anything more open, can still easily set it. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#514794: private /root permissions

2009-02-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Kees Cook wrote: Package: base-files Version: 5 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch Hello! One question that both the Ubuntu Security Team and the Server Team have fielded many times is why

Bug#514794: private /root permissions

2009-02-11 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:05:37PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: Last time I checked, home directories in /home are 755 by default and this is not considered as a bug either. I think both cases are similar and we should treat them the same, that is, if the consensus is that user home

Bug#514794: private /root permissions

2009-02-10 Thread Kees Cook
Package: base-files Version: 5 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch Hello! One question that both the Ubuntu Security Team and the Server Team have fielded many times is why is /root not mode 700? It seems that many server