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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00:17 -0500
From:      Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net>
To:        dima@best.net
Cc:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos), trost@cloud.rain.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel permissions 
Message-ID:  <E0yPgmY-0004v7-00@set.spradley.tmi.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:41:56 PDT." <199804160441.VAA03293@burka.rdy.com> 

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> > By this reasoning, there's no point in removing read permission either.
> 
> Of course there is. Because user doesn't need to have this information.

Is this what your argument boils down to -- *Your* users don't have a 
'Need to Know' (to use the Pentagon expression).  Maybe I prefer to 
encourage my users to learn as much as they will about the system.  Maybe 
I take a very negative attitude about keeping any information secret, so 
I consider long and hard before I remove read permission for anybody from 
any information.  Maybe that's why I use a system that has freely 
available source code.



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