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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re^2: GNU, security, and RMS
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Date: 5 Jun 89 18:48:07 GMT
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jamesa@arabian.Sun.COM (James D. Allen) writes:
\...	Bravo!  I'll do an occasional
\		% chmod 600 Personal_little_black_book
\	to discourage casual snooping, but I always make /dev/mem and
\	/dev/disk `rw-r--r--'.  If a user wants to write his own improved
\	`df' or `ps', more power to him.

More power to the user who wants to write his own improved version of `cat' to
get `Personal_little_black_book' from /dev/disk itself.
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 "Your password [should be] like your |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
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