[Bug-sysutils] Permissions on /etc/passwd

[Barry deFreese]

Hey gang,

I was looking at the permissions issue on /etc/passwd and now I am starting 
to question whether it should be 644?  Obviously ideally not, but after 
running things like "whoami", it apparently gets the username from 
/etc/passwd and therefore needs read access.  Is this just a bug in GNU/Hurd 
or is this a typical GNU/*nix issue?

Thanks,

Barry (aka bddebian)