>> Is there any particular reason why /root/.profile and /root/.cshrc >> (that have hard links in / too, for the single user mode i guess) >> are not writable? > Aside from applications like vi rm mv etc (probably more) which > require a slight bit more effort if the file has no write permission, > what difference does the user 'w' (or 'r' ... 'x' does matter) > permission bit really make on a root owned file?
Absent some reason to _not_ turn on their 0200 bits, I would say that "slight bit more effort" is reason enough. I've been annoyed often enough by those slight bits more effort myself. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
