which unix-pc files MUST be writeable by others?

[Gary S. Trujillo]

In article <1399 at lokkur.UUCP> scs at lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) writes:
> ...There are a couple of accounting files
> (utmp, wtmp, a few things in /usr/adm) that need to be writable.

	-rw-r--r--  1 root    sys         288 May  7 18:12 /etc/utmp
	-rw-r--r--  1 root    sys       26028 May  7 18:11 /etc/wtmp

Hmmm.  I've been running with these files having mode 644 for some time
with no apparent problem.
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