On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:58:38 -0700,
rollingblackout <thang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>A fresh install from SGI XFS 1.0.1 gives:
>
>[root@cafe /etc]# ls -lart|grep "\-rw-rw-rw-"
>-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 66 Jul 20 09:05 shells
>-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 85 Jul 20 09:10 modules.conf
>-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 94 Jul 20 23:53 resolv.conf
>-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 194 Jul 21 12:37 hosts
>
>Are these considered "normal"? Any other place where world writable?
Which kernel? There was a kernel bug from 2.4.3-pre5 until 2.4.7-pre7
where the initscripts ran with umask 000 instead of 022, that would
give the effect above. It is fixed in the XFS CVS tree because that is
at 2.4.7, but the old releases might be bitten by this kernel bug.
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