• negative group permissions

    From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 17 07:23:49 2024
    What's ``negative group permissions''? Why does FreeBSD care about
    that? This is part of the ``security run output'' report.

    --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
    Checking negative group permissions:
    242324 -rws-----x 1 root wheel 10952 2024-11-21T14:39:55 /bin/checkpassword
    81477 ---------x 1 me wheel 0 2024-12-15T11:49:51 /usr/home/me/hello.txt
    --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

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  • From Mike Scott@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Tue Dec 17 15:25:33 2024
    On 17/12/2024 10:23, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
    What's ``negative group permissions''? Why does FreeBSD care about
    that? This is part of the ``security run output'' report.

    --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
    Checking negative group permissions:
    242324 -rws-----x 1 root wheel 10952 2024-11-21T14:39:55 /bin/checkpassword
    81477 ---------x 1 me wheel 0 2024-12-15T11:49:51 /usr/home/me/hello.txt
    --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---


    Your group / owner permissions are more restrictive than world. If
    nothing else, it's probably meaningless; at worst misleading.



    --
    Mike Scott
    Harlow, England

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