Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932080AbWCRMmq (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:42:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751536AbWCRMmq (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:42:46 -0500 Received: from mail.linicks.net ([217.204.244.146]:36776 "EHLO linux233.linicks.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474AbWCRMmp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:42:45 -0500 From: Nick Warne To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: chmod 111 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:42:24 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds , Felipe Alfaro Solana , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200603171746.18894.nick@linicks.net> <1142621728.9478.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603181242.24619.nick@linicks.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 21 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 -- "Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it." -Chinese Proverb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/