Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:54:48 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forcing umask values (i.e. stopping users from making files world accessible)? Message-ID: <20020808015448.GI320@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch> References: <18221229687.20020807162338@buz.ch> <20020807190050.GD57320@grumpy.dyndns.org> <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch>
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Gabriel, > I'm talking about webhosting consumers and the thing I had in mind was > to stop them from having their scripts with passwords from being world > readable... If you're doing shared web hosting on FreeBSD, then I'd hope you're making judicial use of jail(8) and that file permissions are therefore a non-issue. If not [then why not?], then it sounds like you're trying to solve a human problem with a technical solution, and that's not likely to succeed. The best you can do is tell the customers to DTRT and explain the consequences of not doing so, then it's their problem not yours. Set their umask in login.conf to help. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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