Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and /etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
(Debian Woody 3.0 r1)
$ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2722 Nov 23 15:35 /etc/passwd $
same for group.
Pretty much everything needs to be able to read them. There isn't any harm in having them readable either. The encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow.
Tim
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