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Valdis Kletnieks <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:34:04 -0500
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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

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