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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Read permission on /etc/phones
Message-ID: <472@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 21:41:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: qantel.472
Posted: Fri Jun 21 21:41:39 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 06:18:14 EDT
Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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This has probably been asked before, but I don't remember seeing it.  We
have 4.2BSD unix, which has a file /etc/remote which can contain the
names of systems people can "tip" to.  You can say "pn=@" for an entry,
which allows you to put the phone number in a file called /etc/phones,
presumably so that you can chmod it to 400 so that only uucp can read
it--comperable to L.sys.  You want to keep the phone numbers of other
systems a secret, at least I do.  However, unless the permissions on
/etc/phones are 444, tip can't read the file, even if tip is suid to
uucp.  Is this the way it should be, or is there a patch to tip, or am I
missing something?  Why have /etc/phones, if you can't keep the numbers
secret?
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Steve Vance
{dual,hplabs,intelca,nsc,proper}!qantel!stv
dual!qantel!stv@berkeley
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA