Permissions For /etc/nsswitch.conf

[Shridhar Muppidi]

Howdy,
Am sorry if this has been asked before but could somebody tell
me what should be the permissions on /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

Thanks in advance

-shridhar
(mup...@cs.tamu.edu)

[Glenn Weinberg]

In article p...@news.tamu.edu, mup...@cs.tamu.edu (Shridhar Muppidi) writes:
> Am sorry if this has been asked before but could somebody tell
>me what should be the permissions on /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

0644, owner root group sys.

In general, if you want to know what the permissions and ownership for any
Solaris file should be, grep for that file in /var/sadm/install/contents.
For example:

% grep /etc/nsswitch.conf /var/sadm/install/contents
/etc/nsswitch.conf e nsswitch 0644 root sys 779 884 825524891 SUNWcsr

Regards,

Glenn
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[Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer]

mup...@cs.tamu.edu (Shridhar Muppidi) writes:

>Howdy,

> Am sorry if this has been asked before but could somebody tell
>me what should be the permissions on /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

644 or 444 (rw-r--r-- or r--r--r--)

Everybody must be able to read it.

Casper
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