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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: /etc/passwd security (was Re: Who are you?)
- Message-ID: <1356@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 09:22:36 GMT
- References: <9208192320@umunk.GUN.de> <1355@pacsoft.com> <1992Aug21.163922.19733@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
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- In an article, pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo) writes:
- >I wouldn't go so far as to make such a blanket statement as, "no restricted
- >shell is safe." In most cases, it's not the shell that's at fault; it's
- >the programs that are allowed to be accessed.
-
- Agreed -- it would have been more accurate for me to write "no restricted
- environment is completely safe". However, the point remains the same.
- Don't depend on just the tools (or just your users) to make your system
- secure.
-
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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