Re: Permissions of the root dot files

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@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?

Absent some reason to _not_ turn on their 0200 bits, I would say that
"slight bit more effort" is reason enough.  I've been annoyed often
enough by those slight bits more effort myself.

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