Re: Various Solaris 2.3 file permission problems

Dave Mitchell (D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Wed, 4 Jan 95 16:01:31 GMT

I've just checked with a virgin Solaris 2.4 installation and this is
what I've found:

> Problems: 1. As distributed, /opt/SUNWdxlib contains many _world_ writeable
>              files, including executables.

appears fixed

>           2. By default, /var/nis/{hostname}.dict is _world_ writeable.

no comment, not using nis+ (:-)

>           3. /etc/hostname.le0 is _world_ writeable.

fixed

>
>           4. /var/statmon, /var/statmon/sm, and /var/statmon/sm.bak are
>              _world_ writeable directories.
still writeable

>           5. The following files are _world_ writeable:
>                /var/adm/vold.log
>                /var/log/syslog*
>                /var/lp/logs/lpsched
>                /var/lp/logs/lpNet
>                /etc/mnttab
>                /etc/path_to_inst.old
>                /var/saf/_log
>                /etc/rmtab

-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root         702 Jan  4 15:07 /etc/mnttab
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys            0 Oct 25 16:33 /var/log/syslog
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root         318 Dec 30 17:53 /var/adm/vold.log
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root         951 Dec 30 17:53 /var/saf/_log
-r--r--r--   1 root     sys         1958 Dec 30 17:06 /etc/path_to_inst.old
-rw-------   1 root     other        618 Dec 30 17:53 /var/lp/logs/lpNet
-rw-------   1 root     other        436 Dec 30 17:53 /var/lp/logs/lpsched
(I havent got an rmtab yet)



Dave.

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