Protecting against downloads

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <188 at srwic.UUCP> sralston at srwic.UUCP (Steve Ralston) writes:
>chmod o-r /usr/bin/*		# revoke read permission from "others"
>				# (other than user (owner) or group)
>
>but then, hardly any of the programs in /usr/bin should have "other read"
>perms set by DEFAULT anyway; unless you're running a fairly non-secure
>system.

Or, of course, unless the program is a shell script which would then 
no longer work.


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