On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 21:42, Robert Storey wrote: > > > But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to > > > do is do 'cat ~<foo>/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner- > > > readable(like .fetchmailrc). > > > > > > > Sure, but that can be fixed, as you say, with permissions changes. > > You can't fix the fact that superusers can read your password. > > In .bash_profile for every user I've included this line: > > umask 077 > > That will cause ALL new files to be only user readable. Does anyone know > why this isn't the default?
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