Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> writes:
> > > > that anybody can read root's files?
> > > no. i don't know why you have 0755.
> >
> > He has 0755 because that's the standard we ship with. See
> > /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
> >
> > > change to 0700
> >
> > Why bother? It isn't a security issue.
> >
> i don't like files kept in /root to be world readable. really don't like.
> 
> if you have almost nothing in /root it's not a problem.
> 
> but i still don't see any adventage of having /root world readable.

If you're putting something secret in /root, you're probably doing
something wrong...

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com