/etc/ permissions

[Derek Broughton]

Charles Yao wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, i was able to figure it out yesterday. I found a
> way to log in as root and chaged the permissions on the filesystem. 
> 
That's really a _very_ bad idea.  Please post again when you totally screw
up your system because you've made it so easy to overwrite config files :-(

Doesn't it occur to you that /etc is not writeable by ordinary users for
very good reasons?
-- 
derek