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In article <C0I2qE.Gn2@ccu.umanitoba.ca> grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca (Gilles  
Detillieux) writes:
> In article <1993Jan6.064038.6744@proximus.north.de> gemoe@proximus.north.de  
> (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
> > Well, maybe it's my fault, but I wonder why the permissions of mtab and df
> > are not right set, since 3.0:
> > 
> > -rwxr-sr-x  1 root     operator    6692 Jul 21 17:40 /bin/df*
> > -rw-r-----  1 root     wheel      81 Jan  5 15:44 /etc/mtab
> > 
> > With permissions like that only root and wheel are able to execute df.
> > (Very bad for news, as rnews needs df.)
> > 
> > The question: Is is my fault and which group is wrong set?
> 
> Well, without laying any blame, /etc/mtab usually is world-readable.
> (i.e. mode 664 or 644)
> 
> The owner and group assignments are the same as on my NeXT.
> 

Workspace do "chmod 640 /etc/mtab" sometimes...(when you insert/eject a disk?)

fix : modify your crontab.local and add 
[...]
02,17,32,47 * * * *	root	/bin/chmod 644 /etc/mtab
[...]

It's ugly...

Eric
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