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Re: Shadow file permissions



Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
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>Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>> What are the correct permissions for the shadow files? I suddenly
>> found that xlock no longer unlocks, and I think it might be because
>> the group permissions are wrong:
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>Have you by any chanse been using xAdmin? Don't, it modifies the files, which
>it shouldn't. It (should) have been removed from Debian.

No. At least, I don't know what it is, so I guess not.

More then likely, this has been a bug in my setup ever since
I installed the first shadow password packages from projects/experimental.

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>


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