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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT PPP SECURITY ISSUE
Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:26:55 GMT
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angelo@tawny.ssd.csd.harris.com (Angel Ortiz) writes:

[Many ``cold kaffe'' removed.]

>  3. Make your /etc/passwd file and any pass word encrypted file 
>     read/write only by root.

This is humbug.  /etc/passwd does not contain real passwords on
FreeBSD, and /etc/master.passwd will always be mode 0600 unless you
change it yourself.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)