On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote about, Re: Another possibly daft question
?:
> 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
> ?
You can change the permission of your /root home dir, but that is the one
place where only root can go, its up to you.
>
> I thought that the sensitive system files (passwd and similar) were hidden
> somewhere else anyway.
On a normall linux system most system files are world "readable" the passwd
file for instance is encrypted so its not of much use to anyone ecept the
linux system concerned.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron the Frog, freezing on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River
>
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