On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 14:19 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > 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. 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." -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Je suis Charlie.