/root default permisions

Dick Davies rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Wed Sep 15 03:25:15 PDT 2004


* Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> [0956 09:56]:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Martin Vana wrote:
> 
> > I installed FBSD 5.3 Beta 3 - Default install, and as a regular user
> > I can 'cat /root/.cshrc' or any other file in admin's directory?
> > is it a bug?
> 
> No, that's not wrong.  The /root directory should be mode 755, which
> means anyone can chdir to it, or list the contents.

s/should/is/

Is there any reason why it should be like this?


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