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> References: <20090414192051.GE71895@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <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> > No Phone Info Available > 04/14/2009 02:20 PM > > To > Chris.A.Horinek@seagate.com > cc > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject > Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!? > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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