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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Permissive permissions
Message-ID: <89May9.150545edt.39780@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 19:05:16 GMT
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In reference to:

> >On three different Irises in three different groups (checked within the last
> >few minutes), / was world-writable (apparently shipped as such).  Not funny.

Ken Van Camp writes:

>There was a problem on the 3000's with the tar command, whereby a 'tar x'
> 						[...] .  Anyway, it could
>explain your situation if somebody (maybe even SGI) restored to that system
>with a 'tar x'.  This is not a problem on the 4-D's.

We're talking about a 4D/120, a Personal Iris, and a 3000.  The 4D/120
is a new machine, and its original root had said permissions.  Someone is
being careless (Sun used to do same, maybe still does, but that is no excuse).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4