[SunHELP] passwd file (need to be world readable)

I thought that at first but I tested on my Sol 2.6 box and permissions of
440 or 400 made no difference to "ps" or "ls".

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pinnock [mailto:cjep at fawlty.net]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:59 AM
To: Edward Chase
Cc: Donaldson, Mark; sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] passwd file (need to be world readable)


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:12:32PM -0500, Edward Chase wrote:
> So, it doesn't need to be?
> 

To be able to have usernames appear in programs such as ps, passwd needs to
be world readable.