RE: PASSWD FILE

At 12:20 19.08.99 +0530, nilotpal wrote:
>Actually I want the squid configuration file to be password protected. I start squid through the init.d directory. People are messing with both this squid file and my squid.conf file.
>I can change the password of the root (everyone uses it now) but that's not advisable because of weirder reasons. So, i need to password protect these specific files.
>What I need is that it should ask for password whenver anyone tries to open the file with any text editor.
>help now!!

You can't be helped. If you give the root password to somebody, you
give him or her complete control over the machine. Nothing you can
do will prevent somebody who knows the root password from messing
with any file on the system.

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