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Operating Systems HP-UX Openspool problem when changing /etc/passwd permissions Post 302294131 by MartinGravel on Wednesday 4th of March 2009 02:33:22 PM

03-04-2009

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Openspool problem when changing /etc/passwd permissions

My goal is to protect the /etc/passwd from unauthorized viewing. I wish ti change the permissions of the file to :

-r--r----- 1 root bin

so only root or accounts of the "bin" group could query this sensitive file. All our other processes have been ajusted to not need any info from /etc/passwd.

The spooladm user has "bin" as its primary group, and is running all the OpenSpool processes.

When I changed the permissions, the Openspool's "np" program called by regular users stopped working immediately, returning the error:

No OpenSpool realm default language is set, proceeding with C.
INTERNAL ERROR: get_path returns error.

If I run the "np" command under root, the commands executes successfully. I conclude that the process, under a regular user's context, can't read the /etc/passwd file.

I can't figure out how a workaround for that, because I don't know if it is the "np" command itself, or if it is from a forked sub-command.

Maybe there is a tweak in OpenSpool, anybody has an idea?

I really want to have those permissions set.

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