How to find the files that are world writeable in system.

[Narendra Uttekar]

Hi,
Is there any script or command to find the files which are world writeable in HP UX 11.11 v1 system? That will give me directory path, owner, group and permission of the files.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

HI:

# find /path -perm -o+w -exec ls -ld {} +

...will find all files and directories in '/path' that are world-writeable and do a long-listing of them to show their ownership, permissions, name, etc.

If you want to restrict this only to files (and not directories), do:

# find /path -type f -perm -o+w -exec ls -ld {} +

If you want to examine the root directory, but not visit mountpoints (like '/usr' and '/var'), use the '-xdev' switch:

# find / -xdev -type f -perm -o+w -exec ls -ld {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Uttekar,

You could use find on each server:
find / -perm -o+w

Check the links:

http://bash.cyberciti.biz/monitoring/find-all-world-writable-files-directories/

http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/finding_world_writable_abandoned_and_other_abnormal_files.shtml

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/files/s10-setid-infodoc-v0.6.pdf;jsessionid=6EBAB3C06DF944AB87B751A311EA006D

Rgds-Kranti

[Narendra Uttekar]

Hi thanks for the solution.