On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:54:03PM +0100, eim wrote:
> Hallo debian-sec folks,
>
> While I was checking up some configurations,
> I've noticed that the root's home directory /root
> is world readable...
>
> $ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0k Jan 21 15:33 root
>
> This seems to be Debian's default configuration,
> because also on other Potato boxes I've found that
> same configuration.
>
> Well, as far as I can remember from the Slackware times,
> root's home dir wasn't world readable by default.
Hummmm.... let me see :
$ uname -a
NetBSD netbsd 1.5.2 NetBSD
$ ls -la /root
total 2276
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Dec 12 22:31 .
Huh :-)
Jacques
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