Re: /root keeps getting changed back to 0755

From: Matthias Buelow (mkb_at_incubus.de)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:01:54 +0200

marka@drugs.dv.isc.org (Mark Andrews) writes:

> You obviously only ever run as root. 0700 is a silly set of
> permissions for /. 0711 should atleast stop most things from
> breaking.

I'm talking about /root, not /.

> As for why the change, I would be looking for something calling mtree.

Indeed, it appears as if /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist is the culprit.
Now for the big question, why is /root included there? Or why isn't it
0700 in the first place?

mkb.