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[linux-security] Re: Re: Re: [Linux UID/GID 'Feature']
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rogier Wolff)
Tue May 13 08:49:51 1997
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:17:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: augustus@stic.net
In-Reply-To: <87yb9k12i3.fsf@glockenspiel.complete.org> from "John Goerzen" at May 12, 97 10:20:52 pm
From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
> * Invalidate the home directory.
> -- REW]
Note. This was not intended as a separate method to lock someone
out. It was intended IN ADDITION TO the other things: * in the
password field and an invalid shell. This should make sure that
the .rhosts files are not writable by the user, and that you know
what's in them.
Roger.
