On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:50, Ged wrote,
> You're going to need to do some reading about filesystem things. You > gave the file various nonsensical permissions. That last one for > example was owner read, write and execute, group and world execute > only (not read, not write). You would normally use something like 640 > (to put it another way, owner read+write, group read only, world none). > A configuration file almost never needs any execute permissions. > > I'd probably make the file owned by the same user that's running the > daemon which needs to read the file, and make the permissions 600 > (rw,none,none). > > http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml Hi Ged. Would this work? # chmod og=r /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf Would this allow the file to be read publically? CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and should be destroyed and/or returned if you are not the intended and proper recipient. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
