2 Aug
2002
2 Aug
'02
09:29
On Friday 02 August 2002 11:22, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
The question is now: should the shadow file be world readable,
No, no, no, the whole point of having a shadow file is that it should be root-only.
or chould kcheckpass be made setuid-root.
kcheckpass should be owned by root, group shadow and be setgid shadow. chmod g+s /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass Also, check your security settings in /etc/sysconfig/security, variable PERMISSIONS_SECURITY. Edit permissions.{easy|secure|paranoid}, depending on your settings, and make sure that the line for kcheckpass has 2755 as the mode. //Anders