This was an oversight on my part. I forgot the step for resetting the permissions back to 440.
This change has now been made to the instructions at www.digitaldarragh.com
With so many instructions, and a really bad hang over this morning, Your going to have to excuse me for forgetting one step.
Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com
-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org on behalf of Jason White
Sent: Mon 19/05/2008 11:15
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Administration in Ubuntu 8.04 steps.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:48:20AM +0100, Alastair Irving wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with some of your permision changes. In particular,
> doesn't putting /etc/sudoers to 777 make it readable writable and executable
> by everyone? Then, since sudoers controls who can do what with sudo, surely
> anyone can gain root access just by modifying the file?
Correct. This is guaranteed to give you a major security problem.
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