Re: [ILUG] shadow

From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Fri 23 Apr 1999 - 11:16:28 IST

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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 domain 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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