"Julian H. Stacey" writes:
> I don't question the "user or" that's fine It's the final "root" I
> find strange. I guess whoever wrote sshd was so used to "root"
> they never considered "bin" could be better.
Maybe they did, and decided it wasn't. I'm firmly of the opinion that
it isn't.
You al
Fahad writes:
> As Mark put it, if everything is owned by bin you would need to be
> root to do anything.
No.
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Garance A Drosehn writes:
> At one time I read that having directories/files owned by root was a
> security benefit when considering the -maproot= for NFS exports.
> All unix systems recognize UID=0 means root, and there is no other
> UID which all unix systems agree on. Disclaimer: I rarely use
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Fahad
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:24:55 -0700
> Message-id: <4fe4aa67.4060...@budacom.net>
Fahad wrote:
> As Mark put it, if everything is owned by bin you would need to be root
> to do anything.
False. most bins have o+rx eg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root whee
> If you look hard enough you will can find the v5root.tar.gz from 1974 on
> unixarchive.cn-k dot de or some other mirrors ;)
http://unixarchive.cn-k.de/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v5/
This looks an interesting site, Thanks Olli :-)
Cheers,
Julian
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