Survey: /root/ is world readable - did you know

Alvin Thompson alvin at thompsonlogic.com
Mon Apr 24 13:07:58 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 17:55 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> ~/.mozilla is 755 for me?  This is on my laptop (Dapper), I'll check
> again at home to see what it is there.
> 
> 
> > > Same for Evolution.. WHAT?? (2) I completely cannot believe this!
> > 
> > Same argument for evolution, though in this case, it seems to keep
> > private data in a few locations, but none seem to be world-readable here.
> 
> Also 755 here. Will check again on another Dapper install.

evolution is '755' for me as well. so are '.gnome', '.limewire',
'Desktop', 'Documents', and any 'output.pdf'. IMO, is a BIG, BIG
problem!!!

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Alvin Thompson

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