On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 21:55 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > The passwd file isn't considered secret in any way. Its public > readable data. The /etc/shadow file holds passwords and is root only. I thought that's only because we, now, have passwords stored in another location. It used to contain passwords. Maybe it still does with some distros. ll /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2175 2007-08-19 15:56 /etc/passwd Not quite "root only." Sure, only root can change it, but others can read it. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
