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Article #1182Re: bin owns stuff
From: Chris Torek
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 09:52
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 09:52
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>In article <8481@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>The basic idea is to avoid forcing the system administrator to act under >>UID 0 unless absolutely necessary. Files owned by "bin" can be updated >>by "bin" rather than "root". In article <21879@sgi.SGI.COM> vjs@rhyolite.SGI.COM (Vernon Schryver) writes: >Should anyone besides root be allowed to 'update' sh or crontab? Probably not; bin and root are (effectively) the same user. (That NFS does not make this so is not directly relevant, as 4.3BSD and 4.3BSD-Tahoe do not come with NFS---not from Berkeley, at any rate. That the .rhosts mechanism does, is.) >Is there some <<risk>> with root owning things? Yes. It is relatively small, but it is there. The problem is that a typographic error as root can have much more far-reaching consequences than one as bin. (Besides, I think it is more aesthetic :-) ) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!haven!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: bin owns stuff Message-ID: <13551@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 88 09:52:09 GMT References: <26049@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5416@zodiac.UUCP> <21791@sgi.SGI.COM> <21879@sgi.SGI.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 23