From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 6 9:46:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA3A14CBE for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA53292; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:45:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:45:27 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Brian Somers Cc: alk@pobox.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group bits Message-ID: <19990806174527.D59532@pavilion.net> References: <14250.50016.61650.779505@avalon.east> <199908061154.MAA01988@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908061154.MAA01988@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:54:38PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:54:38PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > I guess you're right. The check is really to ensure that somebody > hasn't got the permissions screwed up. This is now far less likely > now that a base ppp.conf is installed 600 by sysinstall. > > Feel free to raise the PR. A set of patches to check the ``other'' > permissions on /etc, /etc/ppp & /etc/ppp/ppp.conf would be nice too > :-) > I'll keep my eyes open for the PR and DTRT with it. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message