Re: exploring debian's users and groups
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- Cc: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>, base-passwd@packages.debian.org, leafnode@packages.debian.org, minicom@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: exploring debian's users and groups
- From: Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:07:13 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20010807100713.I28861@sherohman.org>
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010807144835.A24114@tardis.ed.ac.uk>; from broonie@sirena.org.uk on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:48:35PM +0100
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:48:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> The package would like the configuration file to be readable by a
> program that is running as user news without being world readable since
> it may contain passwords in plain text. The group news could probably
> go, though.
Why do it that way around instead of ownership root.news, mode 0640?
That way a program running as group news would be able to read it,
but modifications would remain restricted to root.
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