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From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX
Keywords: security, paranoid, file ownership
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Date: 12 Sep 88 18:25:29 GMT
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Jim Haynes <haynes@saturn.ucsc.edu> writes:

	Also changing the owner from bin to root - this is something of
	a philosophical issue, but I'd rather try to protect root
	against intrusion than root and bin both.

Yes, i'd like to hear about why this was (is) being done, in the latest
BSD releases and the recent SUN releases.  It doesn't seem to make much
sense for some new (unprotected) user to own all the binaries.

Any input?

/jordan