It would take a bit of work, but you may want to look into process-based 
security projects, i.e., grsecurity, LIDS, Medusa DS9, LSM, etc.).  This 
would allow you to only allow those applications that explicitly need 
access to files to be able to access them.  So for example, the only 
applications that need access to the /etc/passwd file are programs like 
ls, ssh, passwd, etc.  If you use grsecurity, for example, it has a 
learn mode that will point you in the right direction for what files to 
lock down and open up for a particular application.

Hope that helps.

Zoilo wrote:

>On Tuesday 03 September 2002 17:51, John_Cuzzola wrote:
>  
>
>>*** I'm not sure there is a way to stop it and even if there was there are
>>soooo many programs that would allow you to read /etc/passwd (basically
>>anything with a open file dialog). I wouldn't waste my time with
>>it. /etc/passwd has always been readable to the users (just make sure
>>/etc/shadow is not).
>>    
>>
>
>Of course, I know that.
>
>But I am looking into a protected kiosk-environment with fully stripped IceWM 
>window-manager; so there is nothing there to look around really, except for 
>..... Netscape !
>
>If I can stop Netscape (or another browser, don't care) from brwosing the 
>filesystem, things get just a little nicer.
>
>Z.
>
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