---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/5/7 Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation To: Mario Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2008/5/6 Mario Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: > > > > To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be > > used. > > > I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. > I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer > (OK, I do have them stored in a nice secured place if I ever do need > them). > > Cheers, > > -j > > > ---------------------------------- > > In fact, I use sudo for managing too. My question is not about sudo itself, it's about the possible risks (if any) of having a default installation (FreeBSD7-RELEASE) which assigns ownership of the root folder to root:wheel, thus allowing anyone with wheel privileges be able to see (and copy btw) root folder contents. > I still not get the point.. If the files are create the default is a umask of 022 anway. So if you want to protect your files in the root folder to get accessed, use umask 066 and maybe chmod 700 /root. Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
