/ owned by bin causes sshd to complain bad ownership

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Jun 23 14:03:46 UTC 2012


"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com> writes:
> I don't question the "user or" that's fine It's the final "root" I
> find strange.  I guess whoever wrote sshd was so used to "root"
> they never considered "bin" could be better.

Maybe they did, and decided it wasn't.  I'm firmly of the opinion that
it isn't.

You also have to consider the cost of maintaining a list of "safe"
owners, and the fact that this list may vary from OS to OS.

DES
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