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Re[2]: [cobalt-security] amd root?
- Subject: Re[2]: [cobalt-security] amd root?
- From: Eugene Crosser <crosser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:51:42 +0300 (MSK)
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:36:43 +0100 Michael Stauber <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Did you recently stumble across any RaQ3 or RaQ4 which had /etc/shadow
> set
> > to -r--------?
>
> Sorry about the confusion that this incomplete sentece of mine might
> have
> caused. Things like that happen when writing message half asleep, I
> assume.
> :o/
>
> What I wanted to add, but omitted was the following: "... and user root
> being
> unable to modify the file."
If you are using vi(m), save with ":w!" command, with exclamation mark.
Vi tries to be "friendly" and stops you if it *thinks* that you cannot
write to the file rather than when attempt to write in fact fails.
Eugene