Greetings, I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with msec level 2. Each day /var/log/boot.log gets a "Security Warning: World Writeable files found :" message added to it along with a list of files (shown below). Is this really a problem? Should I simply run "chmod o-w" for each of these files?
Thanks. David *** Messages from /var/log/boot.log *** Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : Security Warning: World Writeable files found : Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /lib/dev-state/log Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.ICE-unix Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.ICE-unix/1049 Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.ICE-unix/1733 Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.X11-unix Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.X11-unix/X9 Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.esd Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.esd/socket Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.font-unix Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/.gdm_socket Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /tmp/medusa-idled-service Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/apache-mm Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/lib/texmf Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/maildrop Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/bounce Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/cleanup Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/defer Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/error Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/flush Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/local Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/smtp Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/tlsmgr Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/uucp Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/private/virtual Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/postfix/public/showq Apr 5 04:11:43 osage : - /var/spool/samba -------------------------------------------------------- David Relson Osage Software Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.osagesoftware.com tel: 734.821.8800
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