Re: secure file permissions
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 09:27:04 +0100, mi wrote:
> Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
> /etc/passwd ?
> I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
> possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
> What's recommendet ?
You want to change them, so I guess you should know why.
BTW, try running ls as a user when /etc/group and /etc/passwd are 600.
Lupe Christoph
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