On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:04AM +0100, mi wrote: > Hello, > > Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and > /etc/passwd ?
%--(6)--$ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1276 17. Sep 22:57 /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 ? Unless you didn't enable shadow passwords the default ought to be safe. /etc/passwd 'only' tells names and login-shells. Not really much to worry about, is it? Horst -- Join the army, see the world, meet interesting, exciting people, and kill them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]