Default File System and Directory Permissions

Many system files and directories in the Solaris 8 release have different default ownership and stricter permissions than in previous releases. The default ownership and permissions changes are:

• Default file and directory ownership has been changed from bin to root

• Files and directories previously with default permissions of 775 now have default permissions of 755

• Files and directories previously with default permissions of 664 now have default permissions of 644

• Default umask of the system is 022

Keep the following in mind when creating a package to be added to a system running the Solaris 8 release:

• All files and directories must have root as the default owner

• Directories and executables must have default permissions of 555 or 755

• Ordinary files must have default permissions of 644 or 444

• set-uid and set-gid files cannot be writable by the owner, unless the owner is root

These changes do not apply to all files and directories in this release; for example, the changes do not apply to OpenWindows or CDE files and directories.