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Old 5th May 2008
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I tend to chmod 4750 any setuid root binaries so that only people in wheel can execute them. Could help prevent a local privilege escalation if someone manages to obtain uid nobody via Apache or some other service, or you just have untrusted users on your system.

I also chmod 700 all home directories to prevent users snooping through each others files -- the amount of times I've come across 'passwords.txt'-like files is alarming!
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