Fwd: Review of About Kubuntu page

[Nitesh Mistry]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Alex Lourie <djay.il at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nitesh
>
> There's no "security" issue with making /bin/sh executable to all. In
> general, its owner is NOT you, so making it u+x will not "improve" security.
>
> In addition, it should be executable by all users in the system, shouldn't
> it? :-)  it is just a binary for running a generic shell....
>

Without further any argument, am just wondering, if that was the case, why
was the permission not set by default? Pardon my lack of knowledge and
inappropriateness of the forum for asking this question.


Regards,
-- 
Nitesh
http://techformyself.blogspot.com

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