From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 18:40: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E5A37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.knology.net (user-24-214-63-226.knology.net [24.214.63.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46C0543E6E for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 24173 invoked by uid 8002); 8 Aug 2002 01:39:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.34.52) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 8 Aug 2002 01:39:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: Gabriel Ambuehl Subject: Re: Re[2]: Forcing umask values (i.e. stopping users from making files world accessible)? Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:39:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <18221229687.20020807162338@buz.ch> <20020807190050.GD57320@grumpy.dyndns.org> <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <7521798265.20020807235137@buz.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208072039.54861.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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