Quoting Moritz Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>shell server. Who says that the admin is any more trustworthy than some > >>other, regular users? > > > > They are not, but most of the time they give you confidential information > > that you must use on that box that you use for stuff other users may > > not access, like database/pop3 information. > > Huh, why would I give shell access (or even a system account) to anyone > but fellow admins on a database or mail server in the first place? From > a user perspective, I for one would rather Post-It[tm] complicated and > unmemorizeable credentials to my monitor(*) where I have at least some > idea about who might get to see them instead of putting them into my > home directory on my own server at home, let alone some server someplace > else. >
I was talking about the multi user systems you mentioned in combination why I should trust the admin from it, you use passwords on them which you get from those administrators, being a password to read your mailbox from there, or being a password from a personal database or from a system you need to check. It isn't the first time I needed to use password X to log into system Y to access service A with password B. Not mentioning I needed an account on server C to be able to connect to system Y. Where server C and Y are those multi user systems you mentioned. On the other hand, I never agreed with making it the default, only for providing a method to change that behaviour without hacking the code. Which I didn't knew it could be fixed with changing the permissions of just /etc/skel once, I only read the adduser code near the permissions. If someone did agree integrating it, I would be happy to read the next/prev lines and make the patch myself. J. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent through ihosting.be To report spamming or other unaccepted behavior by a iHosting customer, please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
