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- From: dneedham@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Douglas Wade Needham)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Another ACL question.
- Summary: Can one deny root (real or effective) read access
- Keywords: ACL, root, deny, passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.040151.9037@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 04:01:51 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens
- Lines: 27
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- I have been reading up on ACL protection, and I figure that I know the
- answer, but...
-
- Does anyone know of a way to use AIX's ACL feature to restrict a file so that
- no user (including root - real or effective) other than the real owner can
- access a file??
-
- I figure that the "Is this user root?" question totally ignores the existance
- of ACLs. The reason I am asking is that I have several file transfer scripts
- that run as daemons (using either ftp or kermit 5a(183)), and currently I must
- supply the password manually each time I run them. I am wanting to find a way
- to put the password in the script and have it protected so that no other user
- can find out the password using root or su <my id>. I do not care if it ever
- gets backed up.
-
- If anyone can think of a way of doing it via ACLs (not a executable please!),
- then send me email to the address below.
-
- advTHANKaTHANKnce 8)
-
- - douglas wade needham
-
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