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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: passwd & permissions
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:33:25AM -0500, c0ldbyte wrote:
> About the easiest way to go about it would be to set the umask for passwd
> command well in operation.

Unfortunately, I don't think this will work because pwd_mkdb explicitly
sets the permissions on the files in question.

	David.