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Re: strange result when typing wrong password



* Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> But chmod knows about octal numbers!  ;)  So you can actually just calculate
> the right octal number and pass it to chmod on the command line, IIRC.

> Something like

> # chmod 0400644 /etc/passwd

> should do the job (untested!).

That doesn't work by a long shot if I remember correctly.  You need a
patch (look around in the archives, I think I posted a hack for
this).

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt


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