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But an unprivileged user can't do any of that. The entire point of unix permissions is so you can't mess with other users' files unless you've explicitly been g
by parliament32 6y ago
But an unprivileged user can't do any of that. The entire point of unix permissions is so you can't mess with other users' files unless you've explicitly been granted permission. File owned by, say, mysql are owned by a separate "mysql" user by default.
- mywittyname 6y agoIf there are readable configuration file sitting around, then it's totally possible to get the credential for other systems. I see this stuff all the time and have leveraged t his fact for troubleshooting systems that I'm unfamiliar with.