New Default Ownerships and Permissions on System Files and Directories

Many system files and directories in this Solaris 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 having default permissions of 775 now have default permissions of 755.

• Files and directories previously having 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.

• Files with setuid and/or setgid ownership 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.