Hi Thijs, * Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-05 10:44]: > 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, ...
What is your argument against that? I think yes, for those who can include passwords this should be the case for the simple reason that this is the simplest solution for the problem. I see absolutely no argument in not doing this and forcing admins to check file permissions by themselves. To come back to your sasl example I also think the situation is slightly different. Getting your sasl credentials you can send mails through your smtp gateway, getting the motion credentials enables you to completely change the complete configuration through the web interface. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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