On Friday 17 March 2006 21:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Yep, I agree whole heartily. I should have stressed the "little" part
> >in the above quote. "might make your system a __little__ more secure.".
>
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 1847788 Sep 16 14:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> I never could figure out what this permission mask was good for.
Yes, my post was initiated by a question in this months RH magazine - somebody
asked why 'finger' on RH systems was chmod 0711 and how/why ordinary users
could still run it. Shadowman didn't know and I was stumped too.
Nick
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