On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > why, when i have the following: > > machine:/etc# ls -la shadow > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow > > and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as > such: > > machine:/etc# ls -la shadow > -rw-r----- 1 root ppp 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow > > ?? group ppp has gid of 42 on my system and that includes all our users.
phil:~% less /etc/group | grep 42 shadow:x:42: phil:~% ls -l /etc/shadow -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1215 Jan 5 23:31 /etc/shadow Do you have the group "shadow" on your system? > i dont want our users to be able to see the shadow file but the permissions > keep getting changed everytime i change someones password! Of course. Users should not be able to read the /etc/shadow Phil