Re: scary, maybe

Matthias Benkmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:29:31 +0100 Sam Halliday <[email protected]>
wrote:

> echo "The folders /tmp /tmp/.font-unix /tmp/.X11-unix /var/mail /var/tmp
> are supposed" echo "to be globally writable

That is not completely correct. They need to have the sticky flag (o+t),
too, otherwise it's a security hole. You should add a test for this to
your script.

MSB

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