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Old 01-19-2016, 01:31 AM   #1
ganesh99999
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Angry i'm learing rhel server 6.1 a file have permissions are 000 but root can read,write do anything with taht how'z that possible without ?


permnissios are like this shadow file in rhel 6.1 sever


# ls -ld /etc/shadow
----------. 1 root root 1474 Dec 13 16:27 /etc/shadow

 
Old 01-19-2016, 09:35 AM   #2
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Duplicate thread; reported...don't post the same question multiple times.
 
Old 01-19-2016, 09:46 AM   #3
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Because user root can do always anything. That is the reason why it dangerous to work with the user id root.
 
  


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