Tightening security on SunOS 4.0 'fastfind'

Rob McMahon cudcv%WARWICK.AC.UK at cunyvm.cuny.edu
Thu Jan 19 16:39:25 AEST 1989


rwl at uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (Ray Lubinsky) writes about `find pattern':
> ... the cautious administrator will want to prevent user directories from
> being added to the database....

It's easier, and more useful for the users, to just run updatedb as `nobody'.

Rob
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