File Permission/Dir Permission : Urgent

[Madanagopalan S]

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.

[Alex Glennie]

wrt DCE dirs default install :

drwxr-xr-x root bin

[Madanagopalan S]

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

[Alex Glennie]

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.

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

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


Good luck