/etc/shutdown permissions

Alex S. Crain alex at umbc3.UMD.EDU
Thu Nov 17 05:47:23 AEST 1988


In article <234 at safari.UUCP> dave at safari.UUCP (dave munroe) writes:
>In release 3.5 at least, /etc/shutdown has permissions -rwxr-xr-x, which is
>obviously a bad idea.

	Yea, but does it really matter? I think that you have to be root
to have /etc/shutdown work anyway, because the shutdown system call 
(in syslocal(5)) must be executed by the root user.

	Now -rwsr-sr-x would be a different story....




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