[Buildroot] [PATCH] system/permissions: make /root group+others non-writable

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:22:32 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> 
> Upon logging, dropbear whines if /root is group- or others-writable, and
> key-based authentication is attempted, reverting to password-based
> authentication:
>     dropbear[149]: /root must be owned by user or root, and not writable by others
>     dropbear[149]: Password auth succeeded for 'root' from 192.168.127.35:41566
> 
> On my system, /root was 770. Changing to 700 fixed the issue.
> 
> Having /root 700 is a good idea, anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
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