Ben Lentz wrote: > I suspect I may get laughed off the list... but would you folks ever > consider restricting the use of chmod such that world-writable files > are reserved for 1) /tmp-style permissions (1777) or 2) reserved for > root-only users? Despite training (berating?) users, it seems the > default reaction to "oh no, I am having a permission problem" is an > knee-jerk execution of "chmod -R 777 *" in order to make the 'problem' > go away... however all it's really done is *move* the problem...
More of a problem than chmod the more typical problem I see is when users copy files through a USB storage device on a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem. Since those don't have Unix file system permissions then using them to copy files results in files being mode 777. And then almost no one seems to fix them subsequently. Sigh. Bob
