On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:42:05AM -0400, Christopher Wong wrote:
> The /etc/passwd file gets its mode and ownership reset at every reboot
> and every invocation of passwd. What controls this, and is there a way
> to stop this? Thanks.
The behavior at boot is probably due to settings in
/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm/base attempting to fixup
anything that looks strange.
The permissions being reset when you run passwd is most likely a bug
in the pam_unix module, which manipulates the file (this tends to happen
more often because the usual method of modifying this file includes
creating a new copy of the file and using rename(), and IIRC this
doesn't always preserve the permissions of the original file).
Nalin
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