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Re: [linux-security] standard users,groups,perms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Black)
Tue Jun 11 11:49:08 1996
To: shaggenbunsenburner <shagboy@thecia.net>
cc: Richard Black <Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
"Jeffrey J. Radice" <jjr@zilker.net>,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 17:57:06 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.3.91.960606174835.4000C-100000@shag.thecia.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 13:34:18 +0100
From: Richard Black <Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk>
> Since root tends to
> store at least some files in her account, it seems to make sense to have
> those files in a special directory, and not cluttering up the /
> directory. I also would rather not have my users seeing any of my files,
> whether they can read them or not.
Exactly my point, another example of the "local administrator" mentality
("root's files" == "my files"). Root has exactly two files. They are .profile
which is publically readable because thats what users get when they log in and
their home directory is unavailable (e.g. filesever down). And .rhosts which
is a copy/link of /etc/hosts.equiv which allows the machine to be administered.
I dont regard two (dot) files as clutter.
>
> Judd Bourgeois | When we are planning for posterity,
> shagboy@thecia.net | we ought to remember that virtue is
> Finger for PGP key | not hereditary. Thomas Paine
>
>
>
Richard.
