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Re: world readable log files and /etc/ files



On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:43:15PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> On Monday, 2002-04-29 at 02:40:57 +1000, Ian Cumming wrote:
> 
> > I was just cleaning up after rebuilding a machine, and I decided to take
> > a look at the log file and /etc permissions.
> > [...]
> > /etc/smb/smb.conf
> 
> This one can have user names, so I guess it would be better off with
> tighter access modes.

 smbclient needs to read smb.conf, even when run by an unpriviledged user.

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