bad owner on /var/empty: RH6.2 sparc 3.4p1

[Kevin Steves]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:13:04PM +0200, Thomas Binder wrote:
> Btw, there's one discrepancy between what README.privsep (and you)
> say(s) and what make install does:
> 
> README.privsep:
> 
> mkdir /var/empty
> chown root:sys /var/empty
> chmod 755 /var/empty
> 
> Makefile.in:
> 
> $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)$(PRIVSEP_PATH)
> chmod 0700 $(DESTDIR)$(PRIVSEP_PATH)
> 
> Note that make install will create the directory with 0700, while
> README.privsep propagates 0755. Which mode is the one to use? From
> my tests, it works with both, but IMO it would be better to sync
> README.privsep and Makefile.in in that respect.

either is fine, but we should be consistent and use 755.  that is
what is used by OpenBSD and Owl.