On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> Not really a silly question, however if the files are in /root roots home
> dir, then you will comprimise /root as a private unreadable directory to
> other users, this because you would have to change permissions of not only
> the file in /root but /root itself.
I now see how I should have phrased my query: From the security point of
view, are there any problems if other users can access the content of /root
?
I thought that the sensitive system files (passwd and similar) were hidden
somewhere else anyway.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, freezing on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River
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