Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: What are these directories used for? Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <9336@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 27 Jun 90 12:20:33 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 7 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 234, message 16 We did a check on a few of our systems for all world-writable directories and the directories /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak showed up. What are these for and do they really have to be world-writable? Debbie Eckel Naval Surface Warfare Center deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil