On Oct 26, 2006, at 4:04 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
I don't know what I'm supposed to make of this:
=== Start Message ===
Subject: <my host name> daily insecurity output
Checking special files and directories.
Output format is:
filename:
criteria (shouldbe, reallyis)
.: permissions (0755, 0777)
=== End Message ===
Normally I don't get daily insecurity reports, which I take to
mean that
everything is OK. But for the past two nights I have gotten this
one; and I
can't figure out what it's trying to tell me.
<cmd> sudo find / -perm 777 </cmd> will show no output other than
when I
deliberately create a single chmod 777 file, at which point it
will show only
that one file. This proves that that find is working properly and
that there
are, as far as I can tell, no chmod 777 files on my system.
The only thing worth mentioning about my system is that it's still
running
3.8.
It looks like your / dir has the wrong permissions.
-Otto
Yup, that was it; ty :-D
