nicketynick;194502 Wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /usr/share/slimserver > total 636 > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 253 root root 8192 2007-04-09 15:31 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Firmware > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Graphics > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 HTML > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 IR > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 lib > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 MySQL > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Plugins > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2007-01-15 16:24 revision.txt > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 SQL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 594675 2007-01-15 16:24 strings.txt > > Wouldn't it be the slimserver install that set the permissions? But > maybe not, I notice that all the directory structure is owned by root, > from usr down, anyway. It must be the way the Ubuntu install was done > on this machine (I didn't do, so haven't a clue). > what does nautilus do?
Normally it is a good practice to make application files owned by root even when the slimserver runs as its own user. This way if there is an exploitable bug in the slimserver the attacker can not write to the applications files. This is why windows is hacked all the time. Everything is easily writeable and most people run with administrator privileges. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34408 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
