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Re: [LI] napster and fs security



On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 05:39:16PM +0500, Bilal Muddassir wrote:
> He wanted to know if putting the napster business to a separate partition
> would help.

No. The UNIX security model doesn't care about the partition. The safest thing
you can possibly do is to run napster as "nobody" and make sure that all
your sensitive files are readable by only the user and the group.

Of course, the best solution is to find out what the security flaw
in napster is and fix it.

	-Arun

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