AppArmor for Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 21:55 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> The passwd file isn't considered secret in any way. Its public
>> readable data. The /etc/shadow file holds passwords and is root only.
> 
> I thought that's only because we, now, have passwords stored in another
> location.  It used to contain passwords.  Maybe it still does with some
> distros.

If any distribution still does it, that distribution needs to change 
their defaults. Its been a long time since /etc/password contained any 
passwords.

There is nothing wrong with any program reading it and several do so in 
a routine manner including pidgin.

Rahul