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From: fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Permissive Permissions
Message-ID: <8905101550.AA02500@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 May 89 15:50:14 GMT
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>>     I fail to see what the problem is?  / has world-writable, so what?!
>> I would be concerned if it didn't.

I suppose its just a matter of personal preference.  Some folks set the
default permissions on the user's directory to 700 so that users can't go
snooping aroung in each others directories.  Personally, I think 755 is fine.
If I have sensitive data I can explicity set the permissions.

However, by default, 777 on root??  / is no place for novice user's to have
write permission.  Moreover, if / is writeable by anybody, why even bother
with a /tmp?  I don't know, it just doesn't *smell* right.  I'd have to agree
with the original poster "Not Funny".
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