Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel
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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