From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 15 1:11:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from prioris (prioris.im.pw.edu.pl [148.81.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718E61543C for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zaks@im.pw.edu.pl) Received: from pd221.warszawa.ppp.tpnet.pl ([212.160.55.221]:260 "EHLO medievalist.org" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by prioris.im.pw.edu.pl with ESMTP id <216150-22979>; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:12:54 +0200 Received: from zaks by medievalist.org with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10tb43-0000Dt-00; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:02:31 +0200 To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reading files. References: X-Face: "3b!R>Sf7)ugP#u*CLpx>CI,1>0U6sh\"@JU>Z>]XWC:A]=-=+V@;:E_^,)E,#tz4T~.u\[ OD|X6X4!4z}$TcTL@ZY9!"sWcK7oc6O#!,QzR]+sStos%9:HiSZL;_~GV[X^)lz8Zd1t7O5o!dZ(y`_a{06-ZiC)s|;3PZ From: zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl (Slawek Zak) Date: 14 Jun 1999 20:02:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: Zhihui Zhang's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:10:48 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <87674qhd8o.fsf@medievalist.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070085 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.85) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** Zhihui Zhang wrote: [...] Zhihui> I know Windows-NT has a feature that does not allow the Zhihui> Administrator (known as root in Unix) to access the file of a Zhihui> normal user. I wonder if this feature can be added to FreeBSD Zhihui> easily. What for if I may ask you. Capabilities are good for programs, but often harmful for #user. Don't tell me that it's useful for mail spool, I won't believe ;) Reading lusers' mail is one of BOFHen spare time duties. On NT, there are many more things people don't know of, or have no means to control. We "lose" in this field badly. /S -- * Suavek Zak (Systems Administrator) * email: zaks@im.pw.edu.pl voice: +48 (0) 22 674 66 79 * PGP v2.6: 2048/9A7CBF71, finger://zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message