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Article #655administration fascism
From: Richard Childers
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 07:39
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 07:39
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leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:
>Richard Childers writes:
>> When I find .forward files in the LAN ... I cat /dev/null into them and
chown them to root and chmod the sucker to 444 and that's that.
>This sounds gratuitously fascist to me. Luckly, it's not hard to remove
>such a file ...
But it is impossible to edit it until it is removed, and provokes the required
dialogue between user and administrator ... which is all I ask.
>The advanced reader might want to use "rm -f .forward"
One presumes that the advanced reader doesn't mangle his .forward ...
Actually, I have been at enlightened sites where /usr/lib/aliases was writeable
by the world. But if you can't trust your users to edit /usr/lib/aliases, then
you probably can't trust them to edit .forward, either.
> Craig
-- richard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bbn!apple!vsi1!octopus!avsd!childers From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: administration fascism Message-ID: <445@avsd.UUCP> Date: 28 Jan 89 07:39:47 GMT References: <412@execu.UUCP> <7094@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <412@avsd.UUCP> <1715@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Organization: die Edelstahlratte Lines: 31