Lesson 7 of 13 · Shrinking the surface
Permissions, SUID/SGID, umask and mount options
Objective
Prevent an ordinary account, or a hacked service, from reading what is none of its business, modifying what is shared, or becoming root thanks to a badly configured file.
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