The "missing" password!

[Niles Rogoff]

It does not require root, and if the person in question accidentally did
something like `mknod -m 777 /etc/passwd c 1 8' as a result of some poorly
written guide, it would prevent their tty from being flooded with binary



On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:52:55PM -0400, Niles Rogoff wrote:
> > A safer way to do this would be `file /etc/passwd', which as a side
> effect
> > does not require root
>
> I'm afraid this does not make sense.  "cat /etc/passwd" only shows
> system account information, not passwords (the file name is historical),
> and does not require root.  Displaying a world-readable file is not
> "unsafe".
>
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