immutable bit

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 29 10:20:46 UTC 2005


preeti malakar wrote:
> Why is the immutable bit of all system binaries viz files in /sbin, /bin, /usr
> not set, so that none can change or delete them?
> 
> as you can see chattr /bin/login will give
> ------------- /bin/login

Security updates would fail for a start...

Paul.




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