Re: Security on Shared Servers

Adrian Lopez wrote: > > The solution is to chgrp the file containing the password to nogroup. > Oops... add to that changing permissions so that access is forbidden to all but the owner of the file and the group nogroup. The disadvantage to doing this is that whenever you modify the file the group reverts back to the owner's own group. As far as I know only root can change it back to nogroup, which means you have to wake up the admin every time you make some changes. ============================================================= = Adrian Lopez <adrian2@caribe.net> ========================= = if (ideals != reality) return frustration; ================ =============================================================