Vulnerability Development: Re: ssh quirks...

From: Kev <klmitch_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:04:43 -0500

> If, for whatever insane reason, you don't want your users knowing anyone
> else's home directory, you can remove world read perms from /etc/passwd,
> and make /home mode 511. Not that anyone would recommend that...

of course, removing world read perms from /etc/passwd would break so many
things it isn't even funny. One of the things that would be broken would
be the shell.

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Received on Dec 28 1999