Re: Authenticating encrypted passwords

From: Brett Lymn <blymn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:51:49 +1030 (CST)

According to Robert L. Huffstedtler:
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>Not to mention that 444 allows users to WRITE to /etc/shadow.

Not on my unix system (nor on any that I care to think of):

[blymn@mallee] cd /tmp
[blymn@mallee] touch fish
[blymn@mallee] chmod 444 fish
[blymn@mallee] ls -las fish
   0 -r--r--r-- 1 blymn itgroup 0 Mar 13 11:49 fish

The idea of doing the chmod still sucks though ;-)

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