Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!cbnewsm!szirin
From: szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (seth.zirin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is there an FSDB Manual?
Message-ID: <5037@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 21:43:53 GMT
References: <11223@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <4960@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM writes:
>Of course, anyone that can figure out how to use fsdb can easily read your
>private file without ever touching the directory entry...

Sorry for the scare.  It was assumed that the user of fsdb would have
root access.  The whole purpose of putting a slash in the filename is
to prevent another root user from getting at the file text.  A chmod 600
provides privacy from mortal readers.

Putting a ^H into a file name also confuses people...

seth zirin