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sbr wrote:
>
> I recently started using a new editor called joe, with this editor there is
> a feature that if your existing session is terminated, it creates a DEADJOE
> in the directory. While editing my shadow file my connection was
> terminated, thus leaving the DEADJOE in my /etc directory that was world
> readable containing my entire shadow file. I think the problem is self
> explanitory. I have emailed the creator and there is no feature to disable
> this that I can find or mentioned in the email. My umask setting does not
> seem to affect the permissions of DEADJOE.
>
> The operating system is Debian Linux 2.1 kernel 2.2.10 i386.
>
> - Spencer.
I just confirmed this myself. Hrr. While you shouldn't really be editing
your passwd by hand, some people do that. Plus, what happens should you
symlink 'DEADJOE' to /etc/passwd or something else. Somebody wanna look
into this one?
-prj
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