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Re: Feature Request: disallow world-writable files in chmod
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Feature Request: disallow world-writable files in chmod |
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Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:52:57 -0600 |
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Ben Lentz wrote:
> I suspect I may get laughed off the list... but would you folks ever
> consider restricting the use of chmod such that world-writable files
> are reserved for 1) /tmp-style permissions (1777) or 2) reserved for
> root-only users? Despite training (berating?) users, it seems the
> default reaction to "oh no, I am having a permission problem" is an
> knee-jerk execution of "chmod -R 777 *" in order to make the 'problem'
> go away... however all it's really done is *move* the problem...
More of a problem than chmod the more typical problem I see is when
users copy files through a USB storage device on a FAT32 or NTFS
filesystem. Since those don't have Unix file system permissions
then using them to copy files results in files being mode 777. And
then almost no one seems to fix them subsequently. Sigh.
Bob