which unix-pc files MUST be writeable by others?
Gary S. Trujillo
gst at gnosys.UUCP
Mon May 8 08:45:08 AEST 1989
In article <1399 at lokkur.UUCP> scs at lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) writes:
> ...There are a couple of accounting files
> (utmp, wtmp, a few things in /usr/adm) that need to be writable.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 288 May 7 18:12 /etc/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 26028 May 7 18:11 /etc/wtmp
Hmmm. I've been running with these files having mode 644 for some time
with no apparent problem.
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