According to Mike: While burning my CPU.
>
> > Who would want to do that? and why, reading /etc/passwd is open to all on a
> > default system as its installed -rw-r--r-- .
> > So why would you want to know who is reading a file they are allowed to
> > read.?
>
> Because there are rarely good reasons for reading it except when you log
> in or change your password.
>
Look at it this way, if it was such a security hole, which is what you are
realy saying, then i assure you another solution would have been introduced
many years ago.
> > Anyway how would you log the event 'ttysnoop' would be a possability but
> > sure would suck up a lot of resources on a busy machine.
> >
> Logging the actual read is not possible with a standard linux distribution
> AFAIK.
That sould be quite easy to do with ttysnoop, or a simple script.
But anyway, i am certanly not so worried as you seem to be.
As far as i am concerned the matter is closed.
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> --
> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives us for another,
> and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
> -- Augier
>
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Regards Richard.
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