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From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
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Subject: Re: directory security
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> Is it possible to set the /etc directory not allow the user to read
> it?  chmod 711

I don't think this will break the world, at least not in an obvious
way, since I can't think of any non-root process that scans /etc.  Of
course, this buys you almost no security; about all it prevents from a
user's perspective is "ls /etc", AFAIK.

Lucas

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