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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: which unix-pc files MUST be writeable by others?
Message-ID: <587@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 06:25:16 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Can someone tell me which unix-pc files, under version 3.51 system software,
MUST be writeable by others?  I checked my system (that's my personal system,
at home) and I found a surprising number of files and directories to be
writeable by anybody, including some humdingers like /, /usr, /usr/bin, and
/usr/lib/ua.  Now some of this stuff seems to be connected with preference
parameters (like /usr/lib/ua/.blanktime) that need to be alterable from any
user's office, and others obviously SHOULD be writeable by others (/tmp,
/usr/tmp, /usr/lib/spell/spellhist), but things like / shouldn't be.

Tnx...
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