Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:30:48 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file permission question Message-ID: <20011002073048.E3661@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <OE726OJi57n6Hj1yNrU00004304@hotmail.com>; from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:13:11PM -0500 References: <OE726OJi57n6Hj1yNrU00004304@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:13:11PM -0500, default wrote: > Hi, > > I am allowing a couple of ppl to have a shell account on one of my machines, > and I am making a few changes to disallow them from using certain things... > like chmoding the 'ps' command to 550 etc... > > I wanted to ask, is there any reason why one wouldn't want to chmod to 640 > the passwd file and other similar files? ... > Yes there are good reasons not to. Translations of user id's into user names springs to mind (ls). There are better ways to do this kind of thing, look into restricted shells... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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