On Friday 04 July 2008 09:49:37 pm Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:43 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008 04:43:26 pm Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
opensuse 10.3 & KDE 3
I'm getting this random problem that after a lock, I can not login - something about password & permission
What is the error message?
To get out of it, I use: chmod 777 /etc/shadow
Not good. ... Wouldn't 755 be better?
Not really. 755 is -rwxr-xr-x but file is not executable. It is a password file. The max it should have is 644 -rw-r--r-- and it should work if permissions are messed up and some service has to access it that is not in group shadow, but allowing last r means that anybody can read that file and that is absolutely not good. # l /etc/shadow -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 859 Jun 27 20:08 /etc/shadow This is 640 as a number. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org