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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:32:21 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        cyu0635@home.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: directory security
Message-ID:  <3BB07955.6000803@i-clue.de>
References:  <3BB067FB.605D6119@home.com>

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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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