Re: [Bug-sysutils] Permissions on /etc/passwd

[David Weinehall]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:06:21PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote:
> 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?

Permissions for /etc/passwd and /etc/group should be 644, root:root,
permissions for /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow should be 640 root:shadow.


Regards: David
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