[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 4:53 PM, 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

Nope:

# rpm -q --dump setup|grep shadow
/etc/gshadow 0 1329943062 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0100400 root root 1 0 0 X
/etc/shadow 0 1329943062 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0100400 root root 1 0 0 X

This says it should be mode 400, as it is here on both of the local EL5 boxes I checked.

You have a serious security hole there, Always.