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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 22:15:40 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Temporary passwd files in /etc?
Message-ID:  <199601282115.WAA18393@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960128130513.29165A-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at "Jan 28, 96 01:07:03 pm"

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It seems that Brian Tao said:
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel      612563 Jan 25 19:06 pw.021282~
 
>     pw.021282~ is a world readable/writeable copy of the master.passwd
> file.  How did either of those files get there?  Do the serial numbers
> on them look familiar to anyone (pids?).

Yes,   you're using  vipw  with  EDITOR/VISUAL=emacs  and you  have a umask
problem. It should not be 666. I have a  cron job that  wipe them every day
but they're always 600 !
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Jan 14 20:23:45 MET 1996



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