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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /etc/shadow
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:41:41 -0700

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:50:24AM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> I just checked mine and found it lacking as well. I haven't done a fresh
> install in almost a year, so I'm not sure that the blame is entirely on the
> ISO.
>
> jason@jason:~$ ll /etc/sh*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1167 Mar 31 14:18 /etc/shadow
> -rw------- 1 root root 1142 Mar 27 19:22 /etc/shadow-

Strange that the shadow- file was correct... I did a passwd on a user
and it didn't mess up the permissions on /etc/shadow

BTW, does anybody know what the hyphenated shadow- file is for? It
appears to be some sort of lock file or backup from doing a strace on
passwd. If that is the case, I wonder how it /etc/shadow got 644 perms
an the backup would have 600...

Seth

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