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Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow
- From: Olaf Alders <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 23:00:28 -0500
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
on 2/7/02 10:44 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Both of these are dangerous. You should fix these now:
>
> # chmod 600 /etc/shadow*
>
>>
>> ->I don't know about the default entries but mine
>> ->are the same
>> ->-r-------- 1 root root 6675 Jan 30 11:56 shadow
>> ->-r-------- 1 root root 6614 Jan 23 10:13 shadow-
>>
Jeff, can you explain why the settings above are dangerous?
Thanks,
Olaf