/etc/passwd permissions problems
Tony Facca
fsfacca at AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV
Tue Dec 18 03:25:21 AEST 1990
>
> I have had a number of spookey problems (sendmail errors, users login
> password) that were corrected by making /etc/passwd writable.
>
> Why does everyone need to write /etc/passwd ? I thought all they
> needed was to read it !
>
/etc/passwd runs just fine with read-only permissions for us. It should
definitley not be writable by everyone, or why bother having a password
file?
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