Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad
From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to stop future viruses.
Message-ID: <2317@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 23:09:33 GMT
References: <16722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <16722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> greg@math.Berkeley.EDU (Greg) writes:
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>On most Unix systems that I've seen, /etc/passwd is publicly readable. 
>There is no reason for this.  It's amusing to have encrypted passwords
>that anyone can look at, but it's also a security hole.

I guess you don't want to use ~ in csh, nor do you want ls -l to
give you user names instead of user numbers.

>4.  Eliminate unnecessary .rhosts files

I'll agree with you there.



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