a couple of mgetty questions

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Wed Apr 30 17:39:22 EDT 2003


Hi Cecil.

Which files are you referring to? /etc/passwd and /bin/login should keep the permissions/ownership they already have of course.

I suppose that I can chown mgetty to a single userid, but since that's run from /etc/inittab, I'm not sure if that would be doable. 
Thanks.

Greg


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:35:37AM -0400, Whitley GS11 Cecil H wrote:
> Hi greg,
> Could you set the permissions on the files so that only the userid you want
> to have access would have execute permission?  You might even want to take
> away read as well so that it couldn't be copied and run elsewhere.  
> Cecil
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