From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chmod 111
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:42:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603181242.24619.nick@linicks.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603172243460.829@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Friday 17 March 2006 21:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Yep, I agree whole heartily. I should have stressed the "little" part
> >in the above quote. "might make your system a __little__ more secure.".
>
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 1847788 Sep 16 14:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> I never could figure out what this permission mask was good for.
Yes, my post was initiated by a question in this months RH magazine - somebody
asked why 'finger' on RH systems was chmod 0711 and how/why ordinary users
could still run it. Shadowman didn't know and I was stumped too.
Nick
--
"Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it."
-Chinese Proverb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-18 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 17:46 chmod 111 Nick Warne
[not found] ` <6f6293f10603171007vbf752e5n8a3d6f2d65e0a1e7@mail.gmail.com>
2006-03-17 18:11 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-17 18:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-03-17 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 18:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-03-17 21:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-18 12:42 ` Nick Warne [this message]
2006-03-17 19:38 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-17 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 20:27 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-17 20:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-03-18 14:09 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-17 18:12 ` Joshua Hudson
[not found] ` <441AFBF5.7010009@tlinx.org>
2006-03-17 18:14 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-17 18:18 ` Phillip Susi
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