Looking through other users' (unprotected) files

David Katinsky katinsky at topaz.RUTGERS.EDU
Thu Oct 23 06:25:32 AEST 1986


	

<At  our place, there is a Committee on Privacy that worries about
<such things.  Their major concern was that we could not teach our
<four or  five  thousand  novices  about  chmod  BEFORE  they  had
<casually  created private files which others would then browse --
<in other words: were users giving informed consent or just  using
<a defualt of "friendly" which novices (the reasonable man?) would
<not  expect?

	What about a default umask????
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						Monty Python's Life of Brian
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