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Re: Insecure world writable files from XFS 1.0.1 ISO installer

To: Simon Matter <Simon.Matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Insecure world writable files from XFS 1.0.1 ISO installer
From: Dean Brissinger <brissing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:29:45 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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At 7:10 PM +0200 8/2/01, Simon Matter wrote:
Unfortunately the problem applies to all directories, but for example in /usr
there are just a few files with wrong permissions because usually the problem
applies to config files created at boot time. I tried to figure out which
device files do not belong to an RPM and could also have wrong permissions. I
guess this could be a difficult task because mode 644 is not always the
solution there.

I recall there being some tools out there to backup/restore UNIX permissions. If someone could backup the permissions on a default Linux install and share the tool/data on the list we could apply it to 1.0.1 systems. The only tool I came up with was 'licen' (check sourceforge.net). I thought there was a perl script someone published once to do this too but didn't find it.


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