Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:22 PM 2/5/2002, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2002 08:06 pm, M. Dinh wrote:
> > I'm sorry for my stupidity
> > What's wrong if you have /etc/shadow set to
> > -r--------?
>
> Somebody is up to dirty tricks!!!
> it should be
> -rw-r--r--
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1020 Dec 19 13:36 /etc/passwd
>
> Kind of difficult to enter a new user / password if no one can write to the
> file.
>
> > and what need to be done if any.
>
> I really don't know the complete situation, but I would be finding out who or
> what changed it.
>
> --
> --
> Gerald Waugh
> ____________________________________________

I have a shadow and a shadow-
both are
-r-------       1 root  root    1733 Jan 15 and Dec 23 for the one with the -

is there a problem with them?
what are the default entries for a 4r?