Being a system administrator i came across a statement as " Excluding temporary directories /tmp and /var/tmp, no root owned files should be in world writable directories"
While the above statement may look straight forward but how would i check if there are any such directories in the distribution?
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I am trying to write a CGI program which accesses UNIX configuration files and changes them as required.
The thing is, I don't want the CGI program to be "root" owned - it's Perl based! Is there any way that the Perl CGI program can request a username and password - and then use this to... (1 Reply)
Hi Group,
Could someone tell me how to find world writable files on my server? I can use find command in conjuction with -perm option and I will get an output. But what I need is an output which looks similar to ls -l output. Meaning, it should give me the full path of the file along with the... (1 Reply)
Hello,
i just wanted to know how do i find out the list of users whose terminal is writable?i mean i used
who -T
but this gives a list of all users whose terminal is writable or blocked and not writable. So how do i do this?I am new to Unix. (2 Replies)
I've tried to figure this out.
I'm only about 6 mos into my AIX admin duties, but I've got a "security" problem I can't figure out.
I've created a sub directory as follows:
drwx------ 2 root system 256 Apr 13 16:02 mike
I've logged in another session with the following user:
$ id... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to know if the is a way I can list the directories owned by a given user. Say i am logged in as that user.
I found out the find command lists the files owned by a certain user/group
but i want to know only the directories and if possible the permissions associated with these... (6 Replies)
Good day. I was looking at implementing a chroot environment using openssh. I know I can use the sshd_config file and dictate that it is to use chroot for a specific directory for a user/group. However, the issue with this is that it is has to be root owned. To my knowledge, there is no mount... (0 Replies)
Hi
I'm logged in to an AIX box now and we need to do an audit on this box.
cbssapr01:# pwd
/
Which command will show all the files and directories owned by root user with permissions as 777 ? (8 Replies)
Hello.
On my family laptop, I have a directory named /local.
It is owned by root.
I want to create a sub-directory named documents ( /local/documents ).
I want to exclude exec for every body in that directory
I want every authenticated linux user can create a sub directory ( ie :... (7 Replies)
what is wrong with this script?
I get:
./perm.sh: command substitution: line 21: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./perm.sh: command substitution: line 22: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Script:
#!/bin/bash
for dir in `/bin/cat /etc/passwd | /bin/egrep -v... (4 Replies)
I want to zip up my fstab file for backup purposes.
This does not work because of permission issues.
cd /etc/
zip -u fstab.zip fstab
Can I use this with zip?
echo xxx | sudo -S
or change fstab owner to me? (3 Replies)