kes3200@sjfc.UUCP (Ken Staggers) (04/03/90)
Hello- We recently added a new subgroup to our system for our lab assistants. In the process, we discovered that some of the fields looked like this: operator::5: stude::7:student1,student2 staff::10:person1,person2,person3 So we placed stars in between the colons because that was the way it was for all other sub group listings. So now they look like this: operator:*:5: stude:*:7:student1,student2 staff:*:10:person1,person2,person3 Was this a security hole that we just plugged up? The file is only world readable, so there's no way anyone could edit the file. Does it make a difference whether there are stars between the first colon (especially since this is not the passwd file). Please e-mail your responses. --Ken Staggers Chief UNIX Lab Assistant St John Fisher College (..!rutgers!rochester!cci632!sjfc!assist)