Subject: Re: /root permissions
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/14/2003 19:16:17
> > > If you're putting something secret in /root, you're probably doing
> > > something wrong...
> >
> > could you please write more about it?
>
> It's very simple. On large, multi-user systems, "root" is typically a
> shared account, with a shared password. On one-user workstations, its

at least where i'm root, there's only one root. hopefully!

> not an issue, either. What do you have in your /root that's such a big
> secret, and from whom?

admins from user.

again - what's in /root so important to average user that it has to be
readable?