From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27
Date: 28 Feb 1998 06:48:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hg5ki8je.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jason R Mastaler's message of "27 Feb 1998 21:27:29 -0700"
Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:
> Because users are often careless, and their careless actions can
> result in dire consequences.
Yes...
> It's more of a courtesy and security safegaurd than a censor.
>
> Think of it another way. When would anyone ever _not_ want
> permissions of 600 on a plaintext file containing passwords?
Well, I can't think of why anyone would leave the home directory world
writable, but I'm certainly not going to check whether the user has
done so or not. Etc.
But that's something that rarely happens, while many users do leave
.rhosts (etc.) world readable by mistake, so it is (perhaps)
reasonable to warn them about what they have done.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-13 18:51 AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 6:55 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 16:01 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 17:03 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 19:31 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-14 19:42 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-14 20:38 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-14 23:30 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-15 5:28 ` AUTHINFO Felix Lee
1998-02-15 13:32 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:48 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 14:49 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 18:15 ` AUTHINFO Simon Josefsson
1998-02-15 22:05 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 10:36 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 10:46 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-16 11:25 ` AUTHINFO Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-16 18:53 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 2:21 ` AUTHINFO Joev Dubach
1998-02-19 4:55 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-19 14:16 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-19 15:26 ` AUTHINFO Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-15 14:32 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 17:19 ` AUTHINFO Lloyd Zusman
1998-02-15 17:29 ` AUTHINFO Hrvoje Niksic
1998-02-15 19:58 ` AUTHINFO Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-15 22:04 ` AUTHINFO Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 19:34 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 8:13 ` AUTHINFO Steinar Bang
1998-02-15 19:23 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 17:16 ` AUTHINFO Justin Sheehy
1998-02-14 19:22 ` AUTHINFO Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-16 16:27 ` feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Steinar Bang
1998-02-16 18:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 7:48 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 9:03 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-17 8:41 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-17 8:49 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-18 12:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-18 16:44 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-19 15:55 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 2:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 8:16 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 10:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 14:27 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-20 21:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 22:34 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-02-20 21:28 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-20 23:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-20 23:26 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-21 0:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-23 18:06 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-27 11:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-27 15:58 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-02-28 5:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-04 19:38 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-02-28 4:27 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-02-28 5:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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