Thanks, you right, I checked, probably got confused with permissions on /home. /root has by default: drwxr-x--- Why does /root need r-x for group, is it because root user belongs to root group? /home has by default: drwxr-xr-x /home/tim has by default: drwx------ Is this for security by obscurity reasons that /home/tim hasn't does not have any permissions set for group and world by default? Are these permissions mandated by POSIX? Thanks Shams -- "Brian Clark" <brian+nevdull@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20070311022706.GN6266@xxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
