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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: More weirdness
Message-ID: <383@icus.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 23:01:08 GMT
References: <288@uncle.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
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In article <288@uncle.UUCP> jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
...
|>When the system is installed from floppy, the root directory, / is 777.
|>From a security standpoint this is stupid. The real question is:
|>Does the UNIXpc need root writable by everyone?
|>
Yes, the root directory DOES NOT need to be world-writable.  This is
true for some other permission problems that exist on the UNIX pc.
I would check this with a handy find command...

# find / -type d -perm -2 -print | xargs ls -ld

-Lenny

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