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Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow



I don't understand. Why do I want to give more in the way of permissions than the system set on the file? You say it should be -rw------- 1 root root instead of -r-------- 1 root root. Why?

At 09:44 PM 2/7/2002, you wrote:
Both of these are dangerous.  You should fix these now:

# chmod 600 /etc/shadow*

If you can't do it, you should find someone who can.

NOW.

And change all the passwords on the system.  This is a
major/hole/security breach.

Jeff

Barbara wrote:
>
> ->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-
>
> I have two RaQ3's that were restored in Feb 01 after
> the BIND exploits, and both show permissions of
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3230 Feb  4 22:39 shadow
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3274 Feb  4 22:38 shadow-
>
> while I just leased another RaQ3 (fresh install) and
> it's showing permissions of
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1931 Jan 25 17:48 shadow
> -r-------- 1 root root 1931 Jan 12 00:52 shadow-
>
> Wonder if the first systems were rebuilt off an
> original (older) restore disk, and the last machine
> was loaded with a more recent version?
>
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