From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 22:57:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14730 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.local.net (tcs5-42.netwalk.net [206.175.76.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14609 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00247; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:57:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:57:56 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: Don Read cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic Security Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981216222711.0087fd10@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > back on 07:52 PM 12/16/98 -0800, you said: > >On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Michael Slater wrote: > >> This might seem like a pretty basic question to most on this list but > >> here goes.. My boss, a non UNIX person, has directed me to make the /etc > >> directory readable only by root.. He ignores my argument that this is > > > > >You could show him this. > > > >$ uname -a > >SunOS bloodhound 5.6 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 > >$ ls -ld /etc > >drwxr-xr-x 27 root sys 3072 Dec 13 00:10 /etc > > > >That's the default install values for Solaris 5.6 > You could also explain to him that it just won't work that way. There are more than a few programs/applications which need to read things like the password database just to function. Does your boss by chance have pointy hair? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message