More weirdness

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <288 at uncle.UUCP> jbm at uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
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|>When the system is installed from floppy, the root directory, / is 777.
|>From a security standpoint this is stupid. The real question is:
|>Does the UNIXpc need root writable by everyone?
|>
Yes, the root directory DOES NOT need to be world-writable.  This is
true for some other permission problems that exist on the UNIX pc.
I would check this with a handy find command...

# find / -type d -perm -2 -print | xargs ls -ld

-Lenny

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