On Thu, 07 Mar 1996 14:24:07 CST, [log in to unmask] said:
> I do not disagree with what you say, but I would
> like to suggest that the person check to see if
> those logs are actually world readable. That
> slipped up on me. I gave much thought as to
> how/whether I should divulge some information
> from the logs, and then happened to note that
> the logs were, by default, apparently, world
> readable!
Note that "world readable to all authorized users of that machine" is vastly
different from "readable by anybody in the world who has a modem"....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Engineer
Virginia Tech