Re: Auditing systems for default homedir permissions and other potential security risks and also for overly long subjects and needlessly antagonistic mailing list discussion threads

2011-02-23 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 17 February 2011 16:36, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: It would be really cool if there was an automatic auditor for people to use. Not just showing emblems in Nautilus, but offering to fix things as well. Here's how I imagine it might work. (...) From your description you are not

Re: Auditing systems for default homedir permissions and other potential security risks and also for overly long subjects and needlessly antagonistic mailing list discussion threads

2011-02-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: The auditor then looks for things in the system, and in home directories, which might be problems. For example, if it's meant to be a mail server with a lot of security, having telnetd installed and running would be a problem for it to flag. Likewise, it

Auditing systems for default homedir permissions and other potential security risks and also for overly long subjects and needlessly antagonistic mailing list discussion threads

2011-02-17 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-02-17 at 15:24 +, Roger Leigh wrote: I would argue that a change that /would/ make a real difference, would be to have (as an example) emblems in Nautilus that flag files and folders depending on if other people have read or write access. That would visually show what is (and