Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:17:29 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src tree owners Message-ID: <199607041417.OAA01230@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201007032228.PAA24532@mistery.mcafee.com> (message from Jim Dennis on Sat, 3 Jul 110 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT))
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[Cc line trimmed slightly] > > Something that just occurred to me - doesn't some network backup > > software require a .rhosts file for the user "bin"? If so, doesn't > > this leave the system source code potentially vulnerable? On second thoughts, isn't this what the "operator" user is for? (Sorry if I sound a bit clueless here, I use DOS floppies for backing up my system!) > I agree. I was thinking of going in and chown'ing those to > root.root or chmod'ing them them to 600. I like the suggestion of chgrp'ing them to "prog" and then putting everyone who needs to access them into that group. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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