Re: Securing Netinfo

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From: David Lemson
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:39

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henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu (Chuck Henrich) writes:

>Is there any way to make it so that only a root process can retrieve
>any information from NetInfo?  I had originally thought that just by chaning
>the permissions on niload/nidump I would be okay, but then I found this
>program "pwget" that shows the password file.  Any ideas?

Nope, no way to do it that I have heard of.  The getpwxxx() calls
will always work for anyone under netinfo.
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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