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Re: 4.0 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cristian Gafton)
Mon Nov 18 04:39:21 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:37:16 +0200 (EET)
From: Cristian Gafton <gafton@sorosis.ro>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> I did that and now I have a question: is shadow supposed
> to be world readable? I just did 'less /etc/shadow'
> as a user and was able read it.
No. /etc/shadow should be 600, or at most 640 root.shadow, and set the
other apps which need access to shadow file (xdm, xlock-type apps) to be
sgid shadow instead suid root, if that makes you more comfortable.
Cristian Gafton
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