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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Securing Netinfo
- Message-ID: <BtpqtK.EL8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Aug28.003208.3249@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:39:05 GMT
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- henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu (Chuck Henrich) writes:
-
- >Is there any way to make it so that only a root process can retrieve
- >any information from NetInfo? I had originally thought that just by chaning
- >the permissions on niload/nidump I would be okay, but then I found this
- >program "pwget" that shows the password file. Any ideas?
-
- Nope, no way to do it that I have heard of. The getpwxxx() calls
- will always work for anyone under netinfo.
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