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Re: /etc/shadow



On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: 

> why, when i have the following:
> 
> machine:/etc#  ls -la shadow
> -rw-r-----    1 root     root         1761 Jan  9 10:34 shadow
> 
> and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as
> such:
> 
> machine:/etc#  ls -la shadow
> -rw-r-----    1 root     ppp         1761 Jan  9 10:34 shadow
> 
> ?? group ppp has gid of 42 on my system and that includes all our users.

phil:~% less /etc/group | grep 42
shadow:x:42:

phil:~% ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r-----    1 root     shadow       1215 Jan  5 23:31 /etc/shadow

Do you have the group "shadow" on your system?

> i dont want our users to be able to see the shadow file but the permissions
> keep getting changed everytime i change someones password!

Of course. Users should not be able to read the /etc/shadow
Phil



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