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Re: rsaix 7.3S: /etc/security/passwd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 9 08:31:55 1992

From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 08:31:46 -0500
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9060]
Reply-To: lwvanels@mit.edu

Unfortunately, /etc/security/passwd is owned by root and mode 600 on stock
AIX.  Unless you can assume that every workstation that will be running
xscreensaver has had these permissions changed, it may be better to make it
setuid root.

	-Lucien

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