On Thu, June 5, 2008 10:25, Nico Golde wrote: > I have some problems to follow that because I fail to see > why a normal user should be able to read that file even if no credentials > are included. I'm not sure if assuming an admin is capable of noticing 644 > rights and changing it to appropriate value is a good idea. I for myself > would not expect this in /etc (I may be not a good admin :). This is also > problematic as motion can log to different databases including the > credentials for this as well in that file. However adding a note to the > configuration file sounds like a good idea but the solution could be a lot > simpler by changing the permissions.
Wouldn't that advocate to make nearly every file under /etc mode 0600, since there's just a minority of those that need to be read by users? Everything from inetd, apache, postfix, network/interfaces, ... Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
