[16348] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.10: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 22 16:01:08 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey King <gjking@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bugz <bugs@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: "[16346] in Athena Bugs"
> 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.
Hrm, actually, I can't reproduce this. Can you make it happen again?
If so, can you tell me what "umask" says in the shell you run passwd
from?
