On 2015-02-04, Always Learning <centos at 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. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us