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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:32:49 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Chris.A.Horinek@seagate.com
Cc:        jerrymc@msu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?
Message-ID:  <20090414193249.GA72378@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <OF4F5A6FF2.CB2A8BC3-ON86257598.006B59F1-86257598.006B8877@seagate.com>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:33:48PM -0500, Chris.A.Horinek@seagate.com wrote:

> in my case, someone had inadvertantly removed world read from /etc/passwd. 
>    I added it back and the problem went away.

Hmmm.   Well, nothing in the system should be changing permissions
on /etc/passwd.    Was anyone else working on the system who had
access to do that?   Maybe they didn't realize that passwd has to
have world read.

////jerry


> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> 
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:46:37AM -0500, Chris.A.Horinek@seagate.com 
> wrote:
> 
> > check permissions on /etc/passwd, in my case, solaris 10, /etc/passwd 
> > needed to be world readable.
> 
> I don't understand your problem.
> /etc/passwd is always world readable.
> 
> /etc/master.passwd is not world readable.
> 
> ////jerry
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