[wellylug] permission on /

[Sam Cannell]

What are you hoping to achieve?  There is bound to be a better solution than changing permissions on /

Many services run as a non-root user, and restricting the permissions of the whole filesystem will definitely affect them.

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of E.Chalaron
Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 3:42 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] permission on /

> If you want to remove read access, then how are your users going to run
> programs in /usr/bin, read manpages, or do almost anything useful?

They will not, and this is on purpose.
If I do 
#root chmod 700 /
it seems to cancel any authorisation on /home
Maybe 700 is a bit too rough ?????
Thanks
Edouard


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