> On Sunday 03 of July 2005 08:06, you wrote:
>
>> I deleted them because they where readable for all users and I couldn't
>> find a logical reason to place the files there.
>> So should I recreate them?
>>
>> Wouldn't it be much more logical "if" if it deals with 'root' to place
>> these files in /root ?
>>
>> But it would be great if somebody (who knows the exact reason) would
>> tellme what these files are for.
>
> I *think* they are there for booting in single user/maintenance mode, when
> no
> filesystems are mounted yet (and you could put /root on one of those too),
> so
> better to have them - and i don't think it hurts much if those are world
> readable. But, i *think* that, i'm not absolutely positive...
>
> viq

Indeed...
`chmod 700` would be much better ;)

Kind regards and thank you to all,
Sebastian
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