>Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root <----
>Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea.
i have heard this a lot of times ...how is it different ? could you pls explain it to me ?
I like maxims that don't encourage behavioural midifications - Calvin
Ashley Thomas, N.C.S.U
>From: Paul Hamm
>Reply-To: redhat-list redhat com
>To: "'redhat-list redhat com'"
>Subject: RE: permissions and security
>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:09:20 -0500
>
>Better ways to do this. One is to create identical users on both machines
>with the same password and then run your scripts with that ID, I did this
>myself for downloads from a partner. Better still use ssh with RSA
>authentication between the machines, all traffic is encrypted.
>
>Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root <----
>Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Wilson [mailto:nick explodingnet com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:36 AM
>To: RedHat-List
>Subject: permissions and security
>
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>Hi all,
>someone told me it was a *very* bad idea to have passwords sitting in
>text files on my machine.
>
>Okay, I can see that, I'm the root user though and I'd like to have a
>little script to connect via ncftp to my remote server. (complete with
>password)
>
>If I gave the file 600 perms would that be a risk?
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