On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
> RIchard Lindner wrote:
>
> >check that your password file is still world readable. turning off world
> >read privileges will result in this message.
>
> Yup, that took care of that problem. Thanks so much for that...
>
> Other dumb questions:
>
> what should permissions be for passwd and group? Currently I have them at
> rw-rw-r-- with owner and group as root. But now I notice that a user cannot
> change their own passwd (write permissions to the files I suspect). This
> happens whether I use shadow or not
>
> Also, it is not possible to su to root if logged on as another user
> (permissions I guess again)
>
with shadow passwords on, i use:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 522 Mar 16 23:07 /etc/group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188 Mar 16 23:07 /etc/passwd
-r-------- 1 root root 841 Mar 16 23:07 /etc/shadow
... and make sure that /usr/bin/passwd is suid root - ditto for su.
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