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Re: unix and email viruses



Am 2008-03-02 17:29:09, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:16:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I never read mail as root, it all gets redirected to me, dtutty.  OTOH,
> > dtutty is in lots of groups: ssh, adm, staff so something nasty could do
<snip>
> based on the above, I think you've not a thing to worry about.
> 
> But I'm no expert at all. All my previous statements are hearsay at
> best. 

Being in the group "adm" CAN be a problem.

I am in this group too since I do not want to be root reading /var/log/*

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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