On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:03:14PM +1300, Shams wrote: > Hi, Hi Shams, > I installed Fedora 6 and noticed that the directory /root (home of root) > has the default permissions r+x set for group and world. > Can someone enlighten me why this is the case, isn't it best by default > to have it no permissiosn for group and world? > I mean shouldn't /root have "just" the rwx permissions set for owner > and for group and world permissions only enabled by root if it needs > to be? These are default permissions for /root on a Fedora Core 6 I installed a week ago: root@pettingzoo:/# ls -dl /root drwxr-x--- 6 root root 4096 Mar 2 08:19 /root Maybe a mistake changing permissions in the shell when you thought you were in a different location? If that's not likely, maybe a package did it (scary)? Where'd you get the installation files from? -- Brian Clark
