I had multiple terminal windows open using SSH to access a webserver behind reverse proxies and was making changes to my hosts file to alternate between the webserver and public ip. While not paying attention I accidently executed sudo chmod 777 /private/etc/hosts
instead of just opening it with sudo nano /private/etc/hosts
now I'm not sure what permissions I should restore it to.
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James
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% ls -ld /private/etc/hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 473 29 Jan 18:46 /private/etc/hosts

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Thanks. Same as the majority of the other files in /private/etc* - just wanted to make sure. – James Feb 18 '13 at 06:38