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From: valdis@wizards.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
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Subject: Re: files owned by root/world writable
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Date: 15 Nov 90 22:18:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.050348.19997@cs.odu.edu>, epperly@cs.odu.edu (William "Badger" Epperly) writes:

|> find / -user root -ls | awk {'if substr($1,9,1)=w print>test.out

If your 'find' supports it, try this:

find / -user root -perm -002 -ls > test.out

To find set-UID files, use '-perm -4000', etc...

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Engineer
				Virginia Tech