On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:54:51PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
It works out well. I've been doing it for years. It seems some people somehow misread or misunderstood the chmod. I meant "chmod" and definitely not "chmod -R" as I think some people chose to interpret it.
It will inconvenience someone needing to do something on the machine where they have to look at some file in /etc. They will typically to su to root first or use sudo.
The main idea is that it limits some of the casual poking around on the machine that some non-root, non-staff users of the machine may want to do. It won't do much to slow down some system cracker who manages to illegally gain access to a system.
BTW, I liked that comment about temporarily changing perms on /tmp just to mess with the heads of some users. :)
It wasn't on purpose though. Doing dpkg-deb -x foo.deb in /tmp as root is a BAD IDEA. Don't do it. Remember to use a subfolder. Much easier to clean up. Some people just don't learn from their mistakes, like the one named down there ---v -- Len Sorensen