Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel
Hi Doug
Thank you
But I saw most of linux are using 600
why is debian using 640?
for the upgrade, could you give me more information?
eg: steps to upgrade
thank you
--- Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok
> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > why the permission of the shadow file in debian is
> > 640?
> > and
> > how can I upgrade the kernel?
> > eg: 686 kernel
>
> 1. What do you think the permissions of shadow
> should be? The only
> user who needs to read /etc/shadow is root, that is
> the whole point of
> having shadow passwords.
>
> 2. Assuming you're running etch, just install the
> linux-image meta
> package for your arch, it will always depend on the
> most recent version.
>
> Doug.
>
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