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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How secure is UNIX? (Re: Stupid man pages)
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Date: 10 Jun 90 08:32:28 GMT
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In article <1557@quando.UUCP> omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu) writes:
>I cannot find out where you explained this,
>but have you ever tried to remove public read permissions
>from /etc/passwd?
>Very funny results, not the simplest 'ls -l' will work ...

  What he was talking about was something on the order of a protected
/etc/shadow file containing only the encrypted passwords, not a
wholesale protection of everything in /etc/passwd.

>And now MAY WE STOP this discussion PLEASE?
>To me it seems as if everything worthy of discussion has been said
>at least twice, and every new aspect is more unqualified than the
>one before ...

  Indeed.

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