[Fusioninventory-user] Fusioninventory-agent reads /etc/shadow somehow

[David Durieux]

Hi Marcin, 

perhaps when do inventory and get user information.

Do you have more information about the warning? any logs?


Best regards,
David Durieux


On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:02:45 +0200
Marcin Kowalski <kowalskimn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, there is some subprocess reading /etc/shadow in FA, which
> raises a warning in local security daemon we are using.
> 
> It indeed seems to be the case in strace output, although i have
> failed to narrow it down in the code of the agent itself (not very
> good at reading its output).
> 
> Anyone has a clue why would FA need to access this particular file?