Red Hat

Hi mnnn,

no there is no other way to protect the file.
But yum is running as root so no one else need to read the file.

protect it with

Code:

chmod 640 /etc/yum.conf
chown root:root /etc/yum.conf

So only root and members of the group root are able to read the file.

and yum is working.
If you use

Code:

sudo

for running yum so you can also protect it, so that the normal user with sudo rights is not able to read the yum.conf.

I think it is not a security problem.

We are using in our company and no normal user is able to read it.

Regards,
xabbu