topic File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent in Operating System - HP-UX

File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

Madanagopalan S — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:09:08 GMT

I am checking my system for security and I found that
the following dirs have 777. Can anyone confirm
whether is it essential or any changes needed?

/var/spool/sockets dir and sub dirs
/var/spool/calendar
/var/news
/var/rbooted
/var/sam/lock
/var/opt/dce/rpc
/var/opt/dce/security

Pls help me to resolve this probs.

Re: File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

Alex Glennie — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:15:54 GMT

wrt DCE dirs default install :

drwxr-xr-x root bin

Re: File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

Madanagopalan S — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:20:43 GMT

I am not understand, so can i change 755 for /var/opt/dce?

what about /dev/pty/* , /dev/ptys/*, /dev/ptym/*,
/dev/tty*, /usr/share/man/*

they are all 666 , is it ok?

Pls help me

Re: File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

Alex Glennie — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:23:22 GMT

the permissions you gave for the listed dirs are the same on my system. I don't beleive there's much of a security risk for files in /var however the details I gave are correct for a clean install of the O/S and DCE .. ie the permissions can be tightened up.

Re: File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

Darrel Louis — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:16:57 GMT

Hi,

You can look in the /var/adm/sw/products/DCE-Core.
For the specific products the configure scripts, for permissions settings.

Good luck