2 Aug
2002
2 Aug
'02
10:12
On Friday 02 August 2002 12:06, Monaghan, John wrote:
I thought that the shadow file only had to be root-only writable?
Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß / Salutations
why would you need "shadow" then at all? You could just keep the password hash in /etc/passwd, which also is writable only by root. The whole reason for the shadow exercise is to keep "passwd" readable by everyone and hide the password hash from the evil users :-) Martin -- Martin Knoblauch Senior System Architect MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245