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to: Rod Gasson
from: andrew clarke
date: 2004-06-23 03:03:50
subject: Locking Windows

Mon 2004-06-21 19:25, Rod Gasson (3:800/221) wrote to All:

 RG> You really need to take a look at the file permissions for the /etc
 RG> directory Bob. As a general rule this is a world writable 
 RG> directory, and it is ALWAYS a world readable directory.

/etc is not world-writable here.  I don't recall making any changes to the
FreeBSD install to make it so only root could write to it.

3:03 ozzmosis{at}blizzard [~]ls -l / | grep etc
drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel     2560 Jun 23 02:49 etc/

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