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#1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 08:29 PM

Is there any security risk to have files with world writable rights? I
execute the following find commands and have tons of files showed on the
screen:

find -type f -perm -o+w -print
What are the security risks on the files?

Also, I execute another find command on /etc:
find /etc -type f -perm -g+w -print
Again, I had tons of files showed. Are these files writable by each user in
the system?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 08:29 PM

"Sherman H." <shung1099@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<sljjb.2071$7a4.491@newsread4.news.pas.earthl ink.net>...
> Is there any security risk to have files with world writable rights? I
> execute the following find commands and have tons of files showed on the
> screen:
>
> find -type f -perm -o+w -print
> What are the security risks on the files?
>

Depends on what the files are. If they are system files, then there
could be a risk that someone could overwrite them or delete them.

>
> Also, I execute another find command on /etc:
> find /etc -type f -perm -g+w -print
> Again, I had tons of files showed. Are these files writable by each user in
> the system?

Nope, only writeable by people in that group.

Steve

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