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Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage



 
> > But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to
> > do is do 'cat ~<foo>/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner-
> > readable(like .fetchmailrc).
> > 
> 
> Sure, but that can be fixed, as you say, with permissions changes. 
> You can't fix the fact that superusers can read your password.

In .bash_profile for every user I've included this line:

 umask 077

That will cause ALL new files to be only user readable. Does anyone know
why this isn't the default?

 - Robert




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