Re: db of /etc/passwd and /etc/group

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 22:41 +0000 1999-01-10, Russell Coker wrote:
> The DB files are in /var/db.  There is a makefile to create/update the DB
> files, but note that it does not do anything with permissions and 
> ownerships of
> files.  So the first time you run it a file /var/db/shadow.db will be created
> world-readable if the file doesn't already exist.

The /var/db/Makefile I install is the glibc 2.1 version, which takes 
care of making sure shadow.db has safe permissions and ownership.
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