Em if you use xlock on your system, and don't want xlock setuid which is a
good idea on most systems ... so you make shadow gid shadow, make it group
readable and set xlock setgid rather than setuid ..
Dave.
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, kevin lyda wrote:
>poneil at netxn.com burst across the net:
> >Is there any need for the shadowed password file to be readable by any other
> >user than root?
>> not as far as i know. seems kind of against the whole idea really.
>> kevin
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