/etc/localtime isn't world readable

Jean-Francois Veillette jf_balto at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 10 14:27:54 UTC 2003


Hi,

I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core 
distribution. Let say you put your hardware clock in UTC and your computer 
is set to whatever timezone. Then by default, when you log as a user 
gnome/kde clock applet display time as UTC because /etc/localtime isn't 
readable. Is tbere a security issue about this file being world readable.

Jean-Francois Veillette

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