On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, mi wrote: > Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and > /etc/passwd ?
They are both 644 by default. > I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and > possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too. > What's recommendet ? > > (Debian Woody 3.0 r1) I would recommend that you do not change the default permissions for those files. That's why shadow passwords exist (look at the files /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow).
