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From: fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Permissive permissions
Message-ID: <8905101231.AA01869@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 May 89 12:31:30 GMT
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 >On three different Irises in three different groups (checked within the last
 >few minutes), / was world-writable (apparently shipped as such).  Not funny.

>> There was a problem on the 3000's with the tar command, whereby a 'tar x'
>> would always restore directories with mode 777 regardless of umask and

I have seen this on the 3000's as well.  I believe they were shipped that way
and (I'm not positive but..) I think each time the OS was revised I had to 
reset the permission on / after installation.
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