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Re: Permissions of the root dot files



    Date:        Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:27:33 +0300
    From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <Yw1LZafmJKAvhaaj%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>

  | Is there any particular reason why /root/.profile and /root/.cshrc
  | (that have hard links in / too, for the single user mode i guess) are
  | not writable?

Aside from applications like vi rm mv etc (probably more) which require
a slight bit more effort if the file has no write permission, what
difference does the user 'w' (or 'r' ... 'x' does matter) permission
bit really make on a root owned file?

I assume you aren't talking about group/other 'w' permission,
which might be fine for you to grant on your own system, but
certainly not to ship with NetBSD.

kre


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