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Re: /usr/bin/expiry



On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> what does /usr/bin/expiry do?

man expiry

> manual page is not really heplful, command is setgid root (huh?)

i think the man page is clear... it checks if your password is
expired.

> I assume it should be setgid shadow, because it might want
> to read /etc/shadow

it is setgid shadow:

$ ll /archive/chroot/woody/usr/bin/expiry
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     shadow      17312 Jun  2 20:48 /archive/chroot/woody/usr/bin/expiry

there was a bug in the shadow package a few weeks ago where it was
setgid root, that has been fixed for awhile now.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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