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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  /usr/people
Summary: SGI dunnit
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.010900.11700@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 21 Feb 91 01:09:00 GMT
References: <9102130954.aa03988@TBD2.BRL.MIL> <1991Feb20.200913.5623@cs.olemiss.edu>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Feb20.200913.5623@cs.olemiss.edu> tony@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds) writes:
>In article <9102130954.aa03988@TBD2.BRL.MIL> glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB) writes:
>>
>> > From: steve@CHAOS.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Steve Van Gorder)
>> > I just noticed by accident today that /usr/people is owned by guest !?!?  
>> > This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Shouldn't it be owned by root?
>> > drwxr-xr-x  10 guest    guest        512 Feb 12 12:24 people
>
>Well, you could easily get this by making the new user by hand.  This is
>the steps to take to make this mistake: You gotta be root!

I got my 4D/25 yesterday with guest and 4Dgifts already installed and
indeed /usr/people was owned by guest.  It came that way.

Could be worse.  We recently got a Stardent with permissions 777 on most
of the directories in the /usr partition.

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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