From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] v5 and v6 kernel is mode 777
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:56:45 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502230654350.77856@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N5HEftowuKauBvujcNAm9OCqK+xJrevkEGq=eoO4MhtEA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Mark Longridge wrote:
> I just had it brought to my attention that the unix kernel is mode 777
> in Unix v5 and v6:
>
> ls -l /unix
> -rwxrwx 1 root 27066 Mar 23 1975 /unix
>
> There's no reason for it to be mode 777 is there? It seems rather
> dangerous.
Those were happy days back then.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-22 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 19:36 Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:49 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-02-22 20:30 ` Mark Longridge
2015-02-22 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-02-22 19:50 Noel Chiappa
2015-02-22 20:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-23 5:31 ` Ed Carp
2015-02-23 18:42 ` scj
2015-02-22 20:19 Noel Chiappa
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