[LUAU] /bin/ls permissions
Chris Wong
wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Sat Apr 3 01:03:12 PST 1999
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, George Toft wrote:
> Imagine this, I ran COPS on my system, and it complained
> that my permissions on /bin/ls were wrong (SuSE 5.3).
> I ran it on a RedHat (5.0) system, same thing. I checked
> the permissions on a RedHat 5.2 system - same thing.
>
> Here it is:
>
> [bob at molokai bob]$ ls -al /bin/ls
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29308 Aug 6 1998
> /bin/ls
Well since it's root writable only, I don't think that's a security issue.
Perhaps COPS doesn't want any system binary to have any write permission.
> Interesting that ls has write permission. Can anyone explain why?
Hate to break it to you, but ALL of the /bin/* has root write permission.
Not too sure what COPS is trying to say here.
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chris
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