bin owns stuff (was: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX)
    Jordan Hayes 
    jordan at zooks.ads.com
       
    Thu Sep 15 10:14:52 AEST 1988
    
    
  
Jim Haynes <haynes at ucscc.UCSC.EDU> writes:
	But making everything 755 allows a user to make himself a
	complete binary-only copy of the system without getting a
	license.
Also, strings(1)ing a binary is a good way to tell if a certain bug
is still around or not.  Making binaries unreadable might also have
stopped a lot of the nonsense with ptrace ...
/jordan
    
    
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