Bug 15576 - /etc/shadow 0600 permissions
Summary: /etc/shadow 0600 permissions
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-08-06 19:21 UTC by Dale Lovelace
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-06 19:21:25 UTC
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Description Dale Lovelace 2000-08-06 19:21:23 UTC 
/etc/shadow has permissions on 0600, shouldn't they be 0400?
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-08 09:29:30 UTC 
Why? It's owned by root, root can write to 0400 files anyway. The only
difference is that vi warns about writing to a readonly file and you have to do
:w! instead of :w...

I don't see a real advantage in either.
Comment 2 giulioo 2000-08-08 20:24:55 UTC 
Maybe he was referring to what linuxconf wants to do

 Changing permissions  of file /etc/shadow from 100600 to 100400

Explain to linuxconf that in this case 600 is ok :-)
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