Subject: Re: proposed change to ruserok()
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/14/2001 22:13:50
In some email I received from Simon J. Gerraty, sie wrote:
> >below were generally agreed upon as being "a good thing".
>
> >Changes they bring in:
> >* home directory must be owned by user or root
> >* home directory cannot be writable by other (group too??)
>
> These two are probably not worth much unless you repeat the process with
> the parent dirs all the way up to / ?
I was thinking about this...is it worth doing?
btw, I'd like to acknowledge that the group writable home directories was
something debated quite a bit but we just weren't sure if this restriction
would have a negative impact. Since it will, it'll get left on the floor.
Darren