Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories
> that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents
> anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger in that
> (viewing, but not changing). I could just change all of them from 700
> to 755. Then updatedb would find them all and locate will actually get
> everything, until the next time that some program creates its config
> directory with a 700 permission.
You might find that some programs (fetchmail is an example I can
think of) refuse to run if permissions on the config files are not
strict enough.
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David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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