11-13-2009
etc/passwd
Is there any way to allow users to access the etc/passwd file for commands like whoami but not be able to read the file? If I don't put a user in the security group and change the permissions on the etc/passwd file to 640 (rw-r-----) the users can login but the whoami command doesn't work for them. If I give other the read permission whoami works but the user can also read the file. I want user to be able to run the whoami command but not see what is in the /etc/passwd file.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
whoami
WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)
NAME
whoami - print effective userid
SYNOPSIS
whoami [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info whoami
should give you access to the complete manual.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+--------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+--------------------+
|Availability | SUNWgnu-coreutils |
+--------------------+--------------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+--------------------+
NOTES
Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.
whoami 6.7 December 2006 WHOAMI(1)