Subj : This is why FreeBSD...
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Aug 23 2004 10:56 am

Hello Angus.

15 Aug 04 21:12, you wrote to Rocko:

 AM> @TZUTC: -0400
 AM> @MSGID: 1:275/312 05856e60 1162.doveunix 05856E60
 AM> @TID: SBBSecho 2.10-Win32 r1.131 Apr  3 2004 MSC 1200
 AM>   Re: This is why FreeBSD...
 AM>   By: Rocko to Angus Mcleod on Sun Aug 15 2004 13:21:00

 >> Yeah I have to agree here.  At the very least they could have made
 >> it invisible to everybody but root.

 AM> Yeah!  When I (as non-root) run 'ifconfig' it soesn't tell me some
 AM> shit about operation being disallowed.  It says

 AM>     ifconfig: command not found

ifconfig is probably in /sbin or /usr/sbin and may only have execute permission 
for root

 AM> So WTF with chown?

chown does do something for users. (changers groups on files)

as root you can change the execute permissions or move it so that users don't 
get to run it.

Jasen

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