Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX

Jordan Hayes jordan at zooks.ads.com
Tue Sep 13 04:25:29 AEST 1988


Jim Haynes <haynes at saturn.ucsc.edu> writes:

	Also changing the owner from bin to root - this is something of
	a philosophical issue, but I'd rather try to protect root
	against intrusion than root and bin both.

Yes, i'd like to hear about why this was (is) being done, in the latest
BSD releases and the recent SUN releases.  It doesn't seem to make much
sense for some new (unprotected) user to own all the binaries.

Any input?

/jordan



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