/etc/passwd permissions problems
DanKarron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU
DanKarron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU
Sun Dec 16 03:55:00 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 !
Dan.
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