Valery Ushakov wrote in
<[email protected]>:
|On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 08:38:02 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
|
|> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:27:33 +0300
|> From: Valery Ushakov <[email protected]>
|> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
|>
|>| Is there any particular reason why /root/.profile and /root/.cshrc
|>| (that have hard links in / too, for the single user mode i guess) are
|>| not writable?
|>
|> Aside from applications like vi rm mv etc (probably more) which require
|> a slight bit more effort if the file has no write permission, what
|> difference does the user 'w' (or 'r' ... 'x' does matter) permission
|> bit really make on a root owned file?
|
|Exactly my point. So why do we inflict that on people (ourselves
|included)? .shrc is writable but .profile is not and (vice versa) for
|csh - .login is writable and .cshrc is not.
|
|Dot files are meant to be edited, so "aside from vi" is, IMO, a
|mischaracterization of a situation. And "a slight bit more"
|accumulates over different test VMs etc.
In the mailer i maintain i once committed
mk/make-install.sh: install binaries 0755 not 0555..
Since packagers have been seen which explicitly adjust their
recipes for that, do it.
Since root can by default write anything whatsoever on a Unix,
0555 is misleading at best.
(Old hand Jürgen Daubert, CRUX-Linux.)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
