Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!letni!mic!convex!convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: /bin read bits Message-ID: <110117@convex.convex.com> Date: 10 Dec 90 05:46:53 GMT References: Sender: news@convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 17 In article pete@wvus.wciu.edu (Pete Gregory) writes: >Is there any good reason why UNIX systems are shipped with the read bit set >for 'other' in /bin and /usr/bin binaries? > >We'd like to turn the read bits off for all but user and group. This comes up often. Why bother? There's no possible harm from letting people read binaries, and if there is, you've done something wrong. Also, you can almost certainly get a core dump of these, which will yield the code anyway. I only know one system where this is fixed. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning." -me