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Re: [cobalt-users] All folders visable on whole server
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] All folders visable on whole server
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Dec 22 19:03:22 2000
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Kevin D wrote:
> That's major scary stuff.... any decent perl user could download your shadow
> file and get the root/admin password.
No decent (or indecent <smile>) perl user can download my shadow file.
What's the security issue with your system? The shadow file is only
supposed to be readable by root, and nothing I know of (short of an
outright hack) gets around that.
Jeff
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