On Sat, 26 May 2001, Diwakar Ranganathan spewed into the ether:
> > What is wrong with their accessing directories in /?
>
> hmm... would you as root allow the users in your
> network access /bin and do something funny that you'll
Exactly what are the permissions on /bin? If it is anything other than
root:root 0755, you have a bigger problem on your hands. Like a rootkit.
> have to change the system settings or something
> serious like that in order to keep the machine going?
Only root has write access to /bin.
> they have access to their own /home and floppy and
> cdrom directories.
Don't forget $TMPDIR, and $TMP.
Devdas Bhagat
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
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