On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:23 am, Justin Grote wrote:
> DG> I just started to receive security checks from my mandrake 10 system
> and here DG> is something I'm not sure I should be concerned with or not.
>
> DG> Security Warning: World Writable files found :
> ....
> DG> Is this normal ?
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> If you just installed Postfix, then yes, that can happen. If you did a
> chmod on a few more things than you were expecting, yes, that can happen
>
> Mandrake is basically telling you that these are files that should only be
> able to be written to by a particular user (generally this is supposed to
> be the user that you run the daemon under), but they are set to be able to
> be world written.
>
> The easy way to fix this is to type this for each of those files listed:
>
> chmod o-w <filepath>
>
> This will remove world writable (o-w) permissions for each file. Be aware
> that if the user that you run the postfix daemon under is not the owner or
> part of the group with permissions for the files, you probably WILL RECEIVE
> POSTFIX errors, so chown (change owner) all postfix-related files to
> whatever user you run postfix under. If you have postfix running, you can
> type:
>
> ps aux | grep postfix
>
> to find out what user postfix runs as on your system.
>
> If this isn't a multi-user system (i.e. you are the only person who logs
> in), then this isn't something to be terribly worried about, but if you
> have multiple users with shell access (through ssh or other means) then you
> probably want to fix this.
>
> HTH (hope that helps),
Thanks Justin, just me on this computer, probably nothing to worry about then.
Regards,
Dan Gordon
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