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08-24-2005

Sabari Nath S Sabari Nath S is offline

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Doubt on shadow file

Hi guys,

I have a doubt on shadow file ... In the Unix servers in which I am working, I cud see that the shadow file has only one permission set .. tht is read permission for only root user ... (-r--------) ....

So my basic doubt here is that how this file is being written then ... only through pwconv ??? Does even root user cant edit the file manually .....
If so, how pwconv which has the permissions (-r-xr-xr-x) do update the shadow file ???

Thanks & regards,

SNS

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