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Re: [cobalt-developers] About file security
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] About file security
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jun 12 09:34:03 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
duncan gray wrote:
> My linux knowledge is sketchy, by my understanding of
> scripting language in general is pretty high, so if
> you can browse directories? can you not just read the
> contents of a file from one of these directories from
> a script? Or does the linux file permissions prevent this?
Yes, you can read file contents from a script. But scripting doesn't
get your around Linux security by itself; your scripts follow the
security rules.
You can set scripts to be a certain user and to run as that user; of
course if you're not very careful you can cause some serious security
problems that way.
Jeff
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