On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > # ls -lad /root/ > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 31 18:25 /root/ > > I wonder if /root/ shouldn't be accessible by root only per default? But > in which package can I find this one? Should I make a bug-report or do > you think this is normal? (It might be some kind of SuSE-remembrance > from earlier days ;)
This is not the first time this comes up.
short version: /root 755 is no security risk and it wont get changed
either. If you want, set it to 0700 on your box.
long version: search the list archives (both -user and -devel will have
some hits I guess).
HTH
yours,
peter
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