Subject: Re: default permissions on /root
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: dan radom <dan@radom.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/08/2003 12:44:56
* Johnny Billquist (bqt@update.uu.se) wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, dan radom wrote:
> 
> I'm also one of those people who still consider finger a good thing to
> have enabled, and it's one thing I always turn on. I also think it's a
> good idea to be able to finger root, and find out what's in his .plan, if
> he have one. If you chmod /root to 700, I cannot finger him and read his
> .plan. (Just to give one example of a reason I personally don't want /root
> to be 700)
> 

maybe root is a her!  j/k :)

good point though.  i hadn't thought of that.