Re: [SLE] Alert

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 04/26/05

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:32:25 -0400

    On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:15 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
    > Ken,
    >

    > Read what I wrote. You'd have to enable execute permissions in all those
    > leading directories for that to work. If you enabled execute _and_ read
    > on those directories, then people could simply look at the directories
    > and access those mail files.
    >
    > But by all means, be as paranoid as you want. But you're much better off
    > understanding how things work than applying some blanket "solution."
    >
    >
    I fully understand how they work, I have working with unix/linux since
    1989. The whole reason that unix/linux has been more secure than MS is
    because it restricted access to files only to the owner/root by default.
    The owner still has the ability to share their files to whomever they
    want but should not be the system default.

    Many places use linux as a server with many 100's of people having
    access. Now who do you trust? All I am saying is that this should -not
    be the system default. You can always run your home or personal at work
    machine they way you want. From a server stand point this is a no-no.

    How many people keep personal files in their home dir, most do. By
    default they are created 644 giving -anyone- the ability to view their
    private stuff without permission. 

    -- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
  the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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