From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: the umask of root in SLS should be 022 ?? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 12:20:17 GMT
In article <C5G1IK.9uK@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>In article <1993Apr13.213801.25918@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr13.141146.10590@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Der-Hua Liu) writes:
>>>I cannot understand why root's umask (profile) in SLS is set to 066.
>>
>>umask... I'm *still* finding things that should be accessible by anyone but
>>are in fact only readable by root :-(
>
>I did a little looking around after installing SLS and decided that
>there was nothing, short perhaps of /proc (and perhaps not even that)
/etc/shadow
>find / -type d -print will run through the directory tree for you.
...I've been doing *ix for 11 years, I'm quite aware of these things... but
I'm also a bit security-conscious as a result (of course, with *ix in general
tracking security holes is a bit like being a one-armed paper hanger :-)
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery bsa@kf8nh.wariat.orgIt's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... Linux: the FREE 32-bit operating system, available NOW. Why waaaaaait for NT?