On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Yup, but since /bin/login is suid:ed as root, it should be harmless
> to do chmod 640 /etc/passwd?
 
login isn't (or shouldn't be) suid root.  The password server runs as root,
though.

Thanks,
Marcus


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