[LUAU] /bin/ls permissions

[Chris Wong]

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, George Toft wrote:

> Imagine this, I ran COPS on my system, and it complained
> that my permissions on /bin/ls were wrong (SuSE 5.3).  
> I ran it on a RedHat (5.0) system, same thing.  I checked
> the permissions on a RedHat 5.2 system - same thing.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> [bob at molokai bob]$ ls -al /bin/ls
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29308 Aug  6  1998
> /bin/ls

Well since it's root writable only, I don't think that's a security issue.
Perhaps COPS doesn't want any system binary to have any write permission.

> Interesting that ls has write permission.  Can anyone explain why?

Hate to break it to you, but ALL of the /bin/* has root write permission.
Not too sure what COPS is trying to say here.

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chris
/bin/* /usr/bin/*

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