Unix Security Mail
HAMID SAMADANI
hamid at lims01.lerc.nasa.gov
Sat Jan 5 01:34:23 AEST 1991
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From: hamid at lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (HAMID SAMADANI)
Newsgroups: misc.security
Subject: Unix mail
Date: 4 JAN 91 09:23:15
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How secure is mail on a Unix account?
Level 1 - If your login password is known by others, then
your mail is certainly not secure.
Leve 2 - What if the access privileges to the directory into which
Unix stores mail is open to world? What measures can
a user take to ensure that their mail is stored in a
secure directory. Where and how is Unix mail stored?
Level 3 - Finally, root has access to everything. Does a user
have to essentially depend on the discretion of the
person(s) who has/have the root account and password in
consideration of mail or other files that are private
or sensitive?
Hamid Samadani
hamid at lims01.lerc.nasa.gov
-My opinions are my own.
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