According to Mike: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
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> > > There are circumstances where you can write to a user's home directory but
> > > could not read the passwd file without being noticed...
> >
> > Wanna bet.??
> >
> Yes. If, for a simple example, any attempt to read the passwd file is
> logged to console/printer.
Who would want to do that? and why, reading /etc/passwd is open to all on a
default system as its installed -rw-r--r-- .
So why would you want to know who is reading a file they are allowed to
read.?
Obviously i am missing something here, or is everybody so paranoid about
passwords now, afterall the passwd is unreadable and futhermore there is
always shadow passwd's on top of the normal passwd.
Anyway how would you log the event 'ttysnoop' would be a possability but
sure would suck up a lot of resources on a busy machine.
So realy i am correct in saying, no one would even notice on a "normal
machine" that i read the passwd file.
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> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> "Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *can*
> you believe?!"
> -- Bullwinkle J. Moose
>
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Regards Richard.
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