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Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] /etc/shadow
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:26:15 -0800
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
The ones that were dangerous were the "r" settings for group and world;
they made the files world-readable.
Jeff
David Lucas wrote:
> 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?
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