RE: Correctness of the newbie FAQ

[Mike]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, LENGARD Pascal OCISI wrote:

> Why don't the hacker just mail himself the passwd file? if he is able to   
> do all this job (creating cat , ...)
> 
There are circumstances where you can write to a user's home directory but
could not read the passwd file without being noticed...

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