On Friday, 02 December 2005, at 18:11:57 (+0100), Martin Geisler wrote: > Why would removing the read rights for normal users help with > security? Anybody can download the source and build an identical > copy anyway. Then it is only the permission bits which differ, and > that's all that matters.
I think it was more of a "best practices" sort of comment. It certainly doesn't hurt to remove the read permissions on binaries (but it DOES for scripts!), and if there were anything sensitive in said binaries, it would provide added security. Since it could help, and it doesn't hurt, paranoia dictates that you do it. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come stand a little bit closer. Breathe in and get a bit higher. You'll never know what hit you when I get to you." -- Savage Garden, "I Want You" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
