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cyu0635@home.com wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Is it possible to set the /etc directory
>not allow the user to read it?  chmod 711
>
>I mean is there any system problem?
>

Lots of applications try to read /etc/passwd for account verification, 
xlock being only an example.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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