I don't understand.  Why do I want to give more in the way of permissions 
than the system set on the file?
You say it should be -rw------- 1 root root instead of -r-------- 1 root 
root.  Why?

At 09:44 PM 2/7/2002, you wrote:
>Both of these are dangerous.  You should fix these now:
>
># chmod 600 /etc/shadow*
>
>If you can't do it, you should find someone who can.
>
>NOW.
>
>And change all the passwords on the system.  This is a
>major/hole/security breach.
>
>Jeff
>
>Barbara wrote:
> >
> > ->I don't know about the default entries but mine
> > ->are the same
> > ->-r-------- 1 root root 6675 Jan 30 11:56 shadow
> > ->-r-------- 1 root root 6614 Jan 23 10:13 shadow-
> >
> > I have two RaQ3's that were restored in Feb 01 after
> > the BIND exploits, and both show permissions of
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3230 Feb  4 22:39 shadow
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3274 Feb  4 22:38 shadow-
> >
> > while I just leased another RaQ3 (fresh install) and
> > it's showing permissions of
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1931 Jan 25 17:48 shadow
> > -r-------- 1 root root 1931 Jan 12 00:52 shadow-
> >
> > Wonder if the first systems were rebuilt off an
> > original (older) restore disk, and the last machine
> > was loaded with a more recent version?
> >
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