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- From: noyau@pelane.cubx.com (Eric Noyau)
- Subject: Re: ownership of /bin/df and /etc/mtab
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.082445.8580@pelane.cubx.com>
- Sender: noyau@pelane.cubx.com
- Reply-To: e_noyau@cubx.com
- Organization: Cub'X systemes
- References: <C0I2qE.Gn2@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:24:45 GMT
- Lines: 36
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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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