[801] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] standard users,groups,perms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roedding)
Fri Jun 14 12:22:05 1996
To: adamp@mickey.ovid.com (Adam Prato)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 01:18:00 +0200 (MDT)
From: "Daniel Roedding" <daniel@fiction.pb.owl.de>
Cc: jsdy@cais.cais.com, jjr@zilker.net, linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960608052956.30574B-100000@mickey.ovid.com> from "Adam Prato" at Jun 8, 96 05:31:32 am
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Hi!
Adam wrote:
> Could you please explain the benefits of not having root owned files on a
> system? This concept seems to elude me.
One some systems it make sense to maintain /usr/local by a group of
non-root users. (We've got group "localbin"-writeable /usr/local/bin
directories on some systems here, which makes sense if a team of
administrators manage a bunch of Linux boxes together)
But root on such a machine really should never use anything from the
/usr/local tree then...
Daniel
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