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Re: Policy on file permissions



Jim Breton <jamesb-debian@alongtheway.com> wrote:

> Now, please see the message I've attached from Chris Evans, sent to the
> security-audit mailing list.

The same thing can be accomplished by the setting of capabilities.  This is
better since you really only want to prevent compromised daemons from
ptracing.
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