topic Re: HP-UX 11.00 permissions nightmare in Operating System - HP-UX

HP-UX 11.00 permissions nightmare

Bolek Mynarski — Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:37:15 GMT

O.K. It's not as bad as it sounds but I just want to make sure that I'm not going insane about it. Again, I've been going on one of our newer systems checking its file permissions and I've noticed that the following directories were set to 777:

/etc/opt/resmon/log
/opt/java/jre [ and below ]
/opt/netscape/dynfonts
/opt/netscape/plugins
/opt/netscape/talkback
/opt/pred/var
/usr/newconfig/var/stm/tools [ and below ]
/usr/share/man/cat*.Z
/usr/binutils/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00
/var/opt/common
/var/opt/resmon/log
/var/opt/omni/tmp
var/adm/streams
var/adm/diag
/var/spool/sockets [ and below ]
/var/rbootd
/var/sam/lock
/var/X11/Xserver/logs
/var/stm/config/tools/diagnose/psi
/var/stm/config/tools/exercise
/var/stm/config/sys
/var/stm/data
/var/screen

O.K. I can see some of them being as 777 but all of them???

Is there like a guideline for HP-UX which would list for me directories that absolutely need 777 permissions?

Thanks.

Re: HP-UX 11.00 permissions nightmare

eran maor — Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:11:20 GMT

Hi

you can look and this docs :

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90101/B1171-90101_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90101/00/00/77-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90101/00/00/77-toc.html&searchterms=permissions&queryid=20010723-080933

but i dont know for a cookbook that is handing this issue .

i will install a new system and will write a script that give all the files with the primission of 777 .

Re: HP-UX 11.00 permissions nightmare

John Payne_2 — Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:02:40 GMT

You might want to see what your umask is set to. The default is 00. type in 'umask' and it will give the current value. There is a man page if you need it...