SBDavid
Oct 13th, 2010
Oct 13th, 2010
How to find World/Group writable files and directories
How to find World/Group writable files and directories.
Finding world-writable files and directories
#find / -type f \( -perm -2 -o -perm -20 \) -exec ls -lg {} \;
#find / -type d \( -perm -2 -o -perm -20 \) -exec ls -lg {} \;
This will create a huge file with permission of all files having either write permission set to the group or everybody. Check the permissions and eliminate world writable files to everyone, by executing /bin/chmod on the files.
To remove the permission execute.
#/bin/chmod o-w [file-name]
