/etc/shadow

["Marc-Adrian Napoli" <marcadrian@cia.com.au>]

hi,

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.

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

help!

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Admin
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 9212 0387