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Harry Moreau hmoreau at iona.com
Fri Apr 23 09:49:18 IST 1999

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, poneil at netxn.com wrote:
>Is there any need for the shadowed password file to be readable by any other
>user than root?
>

It should not be readable by anyone but root in any circumstances, unless you
want to compromise your security.

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