On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 14:19 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2015-02-04, Always Learning centos@u64.u22.net wrote:
On C5 the default appears to be:-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 Jan 31 03:04 shadow
It is much more likely that someone has screwed up your system. I think even CentOS 4 had shadow as 400. And what on earth would the point be in having a world-readable shadow file?!? The whole point of having a shadow file is to keep password hashes out of /etc/passwd so that people can't read it. It would be nonsensical to then make the shadow file readable.
That is why I posted earlier today
"Yes that is what I would like to know. Can't tell. That disk was wiped, partitioned differently and reformatted. But it remains a puzzle I am unlikely to forget for a long time."