On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 14:19 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2015-02-04, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On C5 the default appears to be:-
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 Jan 31 03:04 shadow
>
> It is much more likely that someone has screwed up your system. I think
> even CentOS 4 had shadow as 400. And what on earth would the point be
> in having a world-readable shadow file?!? The whole point of having a
> shadow file is to keep password hashes out of /etc/passwd so that people
> can't read it. It would be nonsensical to then make the shadow file
> readable.
That is why I posted earlier today
"Yes that is what I would like to know. Can't tell. That
disk was wiped, partitioned differently and reformatted.
But it remains a puzzle I am unlikely to forget for a long
time."
--
Regards,
Paul.
England, EU. Je suis Charlie.
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