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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Protecting against downloads
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.130012.28380@virtech.uucp>
Date: 15 Sep 90 13:00:12 GMT
References: <22@tdw205.ed.ray.com> <iPZeP1w163w@halcyon.wa.com> <3952@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <188@srwic.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <188@srwic.UUCP> sralston@srwic.UUCP (Steve Ralston) writes:
>chmod o-r /usr/bin/*		# revoke read permission from "others"
>				# (other than user (owner) or group)
>
>but then, hardly any of the programs in /usr/bin should have "other read"
>perms set by DEFAULT anyway; unless you're running a fairly non-secure
>system.

Or, of course, unless the program is a shell script which would then 
no longer work.


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