Are there any negative consequences of setting the permissions of the
entire /sw directory and contents to allow anyone to rwx?
Thank you,
Andrew Hartung
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On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 04:23 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Hartung wrote:
Are there any negative consequences of setting the permissions of the
entire /sw directory and contents to allow anyone to rwx?
To turn that question around, are there any benefits to
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Hartung wrote:
I live alone and have a firewall up.
Like winter clothing, security practices work best in layers. If your
computer is attached to the internet, it's never really alone. Firewalls
may block certain kinds of unwanted traffic, but you never know when
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 06:07 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Hartung wrote:
I live alone and have a firewall up.
Like winter clothing, security practices work best in layers. If your
computer is attached to the internet, it's never really alone. Firewalls
may
There appears to be a minor file permissions bug with the binary
version of fink.
I installed fink on an old iBook on about 27 Sept using the fink
0.4.0 binary installer. I used dselect to update to fink
distribution 0.4.1 on 29 Sept. On 30 Sept I noted that fink
--version did not work
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Kevin Horton wrote:
There are no read permissions on VERSION and README.
Weird. Permissions are similar for me but I don't get an error:
% ls -la /sw/fink/{README,VERSION}
-rw--- 1 cdevers admin 1607 Aug 20 19:06 /sw/fink/README
-rw--- 1 cdevers
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 10:18 PM, Joel Hacker wrote:
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 06:29 PM, Derek Homeier wrote:
Just to embark on the layer concept, for the most part it should be
sufficient to make things group-writable by wheel, since you are
naturally admin user (not that
