[wellylug] Re :Sam permission on /

E.Chalaron e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz
Mon Apr 5 16:00:53 NZST 2004


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

Maybe, but so far I am not sure which ones.

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

I do not anything else than joe writing or reading a couple  of files access 
to /home/joe (no mail, no web, no nothing....). I am not sure if it really 
matters in that particular case. If it does, I'll be happy to know. 
Thanks a lot
Edouard




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