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Dear all, I need all of you to clarify about file permission and SUID, SGID as below: Command: $ ls -la /etc/passwd -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1914 2011-04-15 11:22 /etc/passwd # I've changed permission of this file $ ls -la /etc/shadow -r--r----- 1 root shadow 1397 2011-08-01 15:53...

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cvm-checkpassword

cvm-checkpassword(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      cvm-checkpassword(8)

NAME

       cvm-checkpassword - checkpassword interface for CVM modules

SYNOPSIS

       cvm-checkpassword CVM Command [ arguments ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

	http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html
	http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html

       See the above links for details on both the CVM and checkpassword interfaces.  To use this interface with qmail-pop3d(8), use the following
       command line:

	/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup 
	cvm-checkpassword cvm-unix 
	/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir/

       Note: The default mode of operations for this module is to attempt to split a domain name from the account name.  If this is not desirable,
       set $CVM_ACCOUNT_SPLIT_CHARS to an empty string.

SEE ALSO

       cvm-pwfile(8), cvm-qmail(8), cvm-unix(8), cvm-sql(8), cvm-vmailmgr(8), cvm-benchclient(8), cvm-testclient(8)

	http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html

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