Re: secure file permissions

[Tim Nicholas <tim@nicholas.net.nz>]

mi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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 ?
>
> (Debian Woody 3.0 r1)

$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2722 Nov 23 15:35 /etc/passwd
$


same for group.

Pretty much everything needs to be able to read them. There isn't any 
harm in having them readable either. The encrypted passwords are stored 
in /etc/shadow.

Tim


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