Should gcc be accessable by others?

[j.e.drews at att.net]

Thanks Chuck:

 For the info; I will search on that term. 

-------------- Original message from Chuck Swiger : -------------- 
> Anyway, the notion you are looking for is known as "hardening a system", and a 
> search on that term will probably give you more insight. Basicly, just 
> changing perms on gcc isn't really enough, but if you take draconian measures 
> to remove all programs that aren't needed, you can get a minimal system that 
> is much harder to exploit. Such a system wouldn't be very useable to normal 
> humans, however, so this is generally done only for firewalls and the like. 
> 
> -- 
> -Chuck 
> 
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