I know this is a bit dated, but I'm just getting back to my email and
had to respond to this,
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:07, Ed Wilts wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Ed Wilts wrote:
You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't
Ed Wilts wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Ed Wilts wrote:
You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't
think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it
gives information out that you may not want to share.
If
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Subject: Re: Read Exec by default - RH9 - why?
Fryclau wrote:
Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and execution access
to
other users
Of Gordon Messmer
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Subject: Re: Read Exec by default - RH9 - why?
Fryclau wrote:
Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and execution access
to
other users???
What, the system directories? ...because the shell has
Fryclau wrote:
I'am the the root user to applying the chmod...
Obviously.
The system works fine, but I don't like to leave the security access of
each file in the disk with R-X to other users..
When some user login without privileges he could do something like this:
Cat /etc/hosts
And it works
Ed Wilts wrote:
You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't
think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it
gives information out that you may not want to share.
If you're using shadow password files (and you don't have any excuse not
to): no, it
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Ed Wilts wrote:
You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't
think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it
gives information out that you may not want to share.
If you're
Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and
execution access to other users???
Is it right applying this?
cd /
chmod o-r R *
Does anyone know why should I leave my filesystem like this?
thanks
Fryclau J
Fryclau wrote:
Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and execution access to
other users???
What, the system directories? ...because the shell has to be able to
read the directories in order to search the PATH, and the user has to be
able to x a directory in order to read or
