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Subject: Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?
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in my case, someone had inadvertantly removed world read from /etc/passwd. 
   I added it back and the problem went away.





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Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?






On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:46:37AM -0500, Chris.A.Horinek@seagate.com 
wrote:

> check permissions on /etc/passwd, in my case, solaris 10, /etc/passwd 
> needed to be world readable.

I don't understand your problem.
/etc/passwd is always world readable.

/etc/master.passwd is not.

////jerry

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