Re: Insecure world writable files from XFS 1.0.1 ISO installer

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:10:50PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> > Unfortunately the problem applies to all directories, but for example in /u
> sr
> > there are just a few files with wrong permissions because usually the probl
> em
> > 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.
> 
> Does an `rpm --setperms -a` fix most of the wrong permissions?

Hmm, probably not, since the files being discussed are not directly
installed from rpms, but are created by the install process.

Steve

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