Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 21:42, Robert Storey wrote:
> > > 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?
Debian asks you during installation whether you want all files glob-
ally readable or not.
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