read access on passwd file

From: Stephan Goeldi (expires1.4.05_at_frax.ch)
Date: 05/19/05 

Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 00:30:53 +0200

RHEL 3 gives out of the box read access for any user on the file /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow. I don't think that this is necessary.

On RHEL 4 at least the shadow file is only readable by root.

What is best practice?

Relevant Pages

  • RE: Mail Forwarding Not Working
    ... Did you remember to run the "newaliases" command after editing the aliases file? ... I just upgraded one of my workstations to RHEL 4.0. ... root, I never get the email and if I check to see if root has mail on ... mail is going to our smart relay host addressed to root. ...
    (RedHat)
  • PXE boot prob on RHEL
    ... Trying to boot an aging optiplex gx110 for rhel. ... Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 ... I was able to install both rh9 and rhel on this same machine ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • RHEL on optiplex?
    ... Trying to boot an aging optiplex gx110 for rhel. ... Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 ... I was able to install both rh9 and rhel on this same machine ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Mail Forwarding Not Working
    ... I just upgraded one of my workstations to RHEL 4.0. ... email directly to my corporate email address OK but if I send it to ... root, I never get the email and if I check to see if root has mail on ... mail is going to our smart relay host addressed to root. ...
    (RedHat)
  • Re: read access on passwd file
    ... standards. ... > On RHEL 4 at least the shadow file is only readable by root. ...
    (linux.redhat)