>Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root <----
>Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea.
i have heard this a lot of times ...how is it different ? could you pls explain it to me ?
I like maxims that don't encourage behavioural midifications - Calvin Ashley Thomas, N.C.S.U >From: Paul Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: permissions and security >Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:09:20 -0500 > >Better ways to do this. One is to create identical users on both machines >with the same password and then run your scripts with that ID, I did this >myself for downloads from a partner. Better still use ssh with RSA >authentication between the machines, all traffic is encrypted. > >Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root <---- >Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:36 AM >To: RedHat-List >Subject: permissions and security > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi all, >someone told me it was a *very* bad idea to have passwords sitting in >text files on my machine. > >Okay, I can see that, I'm the root user though and I'd like to have a >little script to connect via ncftp to my remote server. (complete with >password) > >If I gave the file 600 perms would that be a risk? >- -- >- ----------------------------------------------------------- > www.explodingnet.com | Projects, Forums and > + Articles for website owners >- -- Nick Wilson -- | and designers. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE8flxtHpvrrTa6L5oRAiAbAJ4g3XV6KSbf7C0dQUOB9F6VrLkhbQCfdfHy >XBYNAKz7rcABeq5jxZi7r/4= >=yW8v >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com.
_______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
