[wellylug] Re :Sam permission on /

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Mon Apr 5 19:53:47 NZST 2004


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:00:53 +1200, you wrote:

>> 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
>
What's wrong with Samba?

Cheers,

Cliff




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