2009-01-24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+ * pathnames.sgml: Add requirement for world-readability of special
+ /etc files.
+
+2009-01-24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
* pathnames.sgml: Add section about accessing /etc files.
2009-01-21 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
<filename>/etc</filename> itself may be NTFS symlinks or reparse
points.</para>
+<para>Last but not least, make sure that these files are world-readable.
+Every process of any user account has to read these files potentially,
+so world-readability is essential. The only exception are the user
+specific files <filename>/etc/fstab.d/$USER</filename>, which only have
+to be readable by the $USER user account itself.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="pathnames-dosdevices"><title>DOS devices</title>