Vulnerability Development: Re: slackware permissions

[Jakub Jankowski <shasta () quasimodo olsztyn tpsa pl>]

On 2001-08-03, denis wrote:

[...]
> > $ ls -l /var/log/cron
> > -rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Jul 22 21:50 /var/log/cron
> >
> > this should be chmod 600
[...]

> If it's 600, then how are user's cron jobs going to be run??
 /var/log/cron is only a *logfile*. 0600 mode wouldn't affect cron's
functionality at all.

 Jakub.


p.s. Please reply *under* cited text, not above. thanks.

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