A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1
desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long
list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed
the popups were the product of some kind of monitoring utility that I had
Daniel Stiefel wrote:
A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1
desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long
list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed
the popups were the product of some kind of
You don't recall the names of some of the files, do you? Whether a
particular file being world-readable is a security problem depends
entirely on which file it is. It is entirely possible that one of your
applications is saving files with this permission. Did this occur
shortly after you
Daniel Stiefel wrote:
A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1
desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a
long
list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and
assumed
the popups were the product of some kind of
I have a pretty plausible guess for what is going on, and it is not a
compromise.
First, all the files in /usr/share/apps/kcsd/cddb are related to the CD
player that comes with KDE. (that's the kscd part.) CDDB is a database
of track information on lots of CDs that can be accessed over the
Dan,
The messages about world writeable files are from Mandrake Security
(better known as /usr/sbin/msec). The first time it runs, it tells you
about all the anomalies it detects - unusual file permision, etc. After
that, each time it runs it compares what it finds (today) to what it found
