From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 10:21:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA00635 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 10:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00607 Mon, 1 Jan 1996 10:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA04893; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:21:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA24520; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:21:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id SAA05624; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:54:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601011754.SAA05624@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Answer to /bin/ls and ftp (should be documented) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:54:02 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199601011606.KAA10803@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 1, 96 10:06:58 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > > The more paranoid among us will be even more cautious: you don't want > people gaining a comprehensive listing of users on your system as easily as > downloading the pwd.db file. I do something similar but with a twist: You could as well install a list of dummy users. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)