How secure is UNIX? (Re: Stupid man pages)

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1557 at quando.UUCP> omerzu at quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu) writes:
>I cannot find out where you explained this,
>but have you ever tried to remove public read permissions
>from /etc/passwd?
>Very funny results, not the simplest 'ls -l' will work ...

  What he was talking about was something on the order of a protected
/etc/shadow file containing only the encrypted passwords, not a
wholesale protection of everything in /etc/passwd.

>And now MAY WE STOP this discussion PLEASE?
>To me it seems as if everything worthy of discussion has been said
>at least twice, and every new aspect is more unqualified than the
>one before ...

  Indeed.

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