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
