[ On Friday, February 14, 2003 at 22:46:13 (+0100), Wojciech Puchar wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /root permissions
>
> and i think 700 for /root should be default. If something doesn't need to
> be world accessible, it shouldn't.
> Just my opinion about general system security.

If something doesn't need to be private then it should not be protected!

> It's similar to deamons that runs on NetBSD by default - almost nothing.

No, it's most certainly not similar in any way whatsoever.

> similar should be with all permisions in default install.

No, not really.

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