Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!cks
From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: More weirdness
Message-ID: <1988Jun19.161105.2799@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 19 Jun 88 20:11:03 GMT
References: <288@uncle.UUCP>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access BBS/Unix
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In article <288@uncle.UUCP> jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
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>When the system is installed from floppy, the root directory, / is 777.
>From a security standpoint this is stupid. The real question is:
>Does the UNIXpc need root writable by everyone?

 As Lenny has said, no. In the stock installation, lots of directories
are mode 777 unnecessarily (like /etc). I think the 3B1 has to win the
'most unsecure Unix right out of the box' award; anyone know *why*
they did it this way (besides sloppy programming and setup)?

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