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From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: which unix-pc files MUST be writeable by others?
Summary: my /etc/?tmp are 644
Message-ID: <179@gnosys.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 22:45:08 GMT
References: <587@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <17736@cup.portal.com> <672@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <1399@lokkur.UUCP>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts
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In article <1399@lokkur.UUCP> scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) writes:
> ...There are a couple of accounting files
> (utmp, wtmp, a few things in /usr/adm) that need to be writable.

	-rw-r--r--  1 root    sys         288 May  7 18:12 /etc/utmp
	-rw-r--r--  1 root    sys       26028 May  7 18:11 /etc/wtmp

Hmmm.  I've been running with these files having mode 644 for some time
with no apparent problem.
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