[16346] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.2.10: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey King)
Tue Sep 22 15:41:58 1998
From: Geoffrey King <gjking@MIT.EDU>
To: Bugz <bugs@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:41:44 EDT
System name: Pit-of-Despair.mit.edu
Type and version: IP22 8.2.10 (with mkserv)
Display type: NG1
What were you trying to do?
Change root's password with /usr/athena/bin/passwd
What's wrong:
It works, but then /etc/passwd.local becomes mode 600,
and so the next time /etc/passwd gets copied to
/etc/passwd.local, /etc/passwd becomes non-world-readable,
which causes many programs to complain.
Also, /usr/athena/bin/passwd should be in root's path
(first in the path ideally):
Pit-of-Despair(~)% where passwd
/usr/bin/passwd
/bin/passwd
What should have happened:
/etc/passwd.local should be chmod'ed to mode 644.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
nil
