On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 15:21 -0400, et wrote:
> On Monday 10 June 2002 08:04 am, you wrote:
[snip]
> > Here you go! Isn't that the state of permissions which should have been
> > there from the start? My experiment just tells the same as what I read in
> > the newsgroup: Although sec level 'Standard' is given during
> > installation, after the install all users can read all other user's
> > files. Only by manually punching in the msec command I get the 'normal'
> > secure status.
> >
> > Now who of the not-so-worn-out Linux users knows the msec command? Who of
> > the newbies even knows that he may have to do something?
> >
> > The unsuspicious newbie does an installation of a presumably more secure
> > system than he is used to in Win9x/ME but what does he really get???
> >
> >
> > wobo
> his security is better than m$winblows even at level 1 msec, since he still
> has to know the root password to install programs or write to system files.
> yes or no?
That is not the point here. Here we talk about a situation that the user
is told he has a good security system but in reality all other users of
his computer can read his private files.
In Windows I *know* about weak security and I act accordingly. In Linux
everybody tells me about how secure Linux is.
wobo
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