Password security (was Re: comp.unix.wizards)

[Frank Wales]

In article <1990Dec10.153246.6297 at smsc.sony.com> dce at smsc.sony.com 
(David Elliott) writes:
>Then again, if you are writing a secure program, it's almost certain
>that the program will be setuid or setgid, in which case you can
>protect the program from being read by anyone other than that uid
>or gid.

Stop anyone at all from reading a binary executable (except the super-user)
with chmod -r, and it will still work; readability doesn't matter.
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