Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:39:54 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gaml@buz.ch> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Forcing umask values (i.e. stopping users from making files world accessible)? Message-ID: <200208072039.54861.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch> References: <18221229687.20020807162338@buz.ch> <20020807190050.GD57320@grumpy.dyndns.org> <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch>
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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 04:51 pm, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello David, > > Wednesday, August 7, 2002, 9:00:50 PM, you wrote: > > I suspect you are trying to go too far. If a user wants to share > > something with another user then by golly they will email it or > > find some way to share it. After all apparently they already have > > ftp and http services at their disposal. > > I'm talking about webhosting consumers and the thing I had in mind > was to stop them from having their scripts with passwords from being > world readable... If my users were embedding passwords in scripts then I'd have a fit. Maybe that is why I jumped at the chance to resume my career outside of I.T. and no longer have users. If a user who is embedding a password in a script isn't smart enough to protect it against other probing eyes then beyond a lecture there isn't much you can do for that user other than create his/her site yourself. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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