A question

[Frank Thommen]

All systems I know disallow reading of /etc/shadow for others or even 
group (for good reasons).  Hence sudo would be required.

frank


On 09/24/2018 06:35 AM, William Roberts wrote:
> Sorry for the HTML...
> 
> This seems off topic. This is list for questions surrounding the linux 
> audit subsystem.
> 
> That file is usually user=root group=root mode=0644. Ie read only for 
> all, writeable for user root. No sudoers entry needed for read access.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 21:30 khalid fahad <kfgm2001 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kfgm2001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
>     What is  the sudoers entry created to allow localuser to cat
>     /etc/shadow)
>     Thanks
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