Re: /etc/passwd

[Bruce Perens <bruce-9848@debian.novare.net>]

From: Matthew Tebbens <matthew@tebbens.idsi.net>
> My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users.
> Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password?


No. Change it back to group "root". If you find that one of our programs
is changing the group of this file, please tell us right away.

Was it group-writable? Check and make sure that the user isn't doing
any funny stuff. Check /etc/group and make sure the user's name isn't on
group 0.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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