How to find world writable directories by "find" command?

[Sandip Ghosh]

Hi,

Quick Question.

How to find world writable directories by "find" command?

Many thanks in advance.

Sandip

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Try this:

# find /dir -type d -perm -002

[Sandip Ghosh]

Thanks Patrick. I was missing -type d.

Now it works fine.

find / -type d -perm 777 -print

Thanks,

Sandip

[Patrick Wallek]

Now keep in mind that you can have a world writeable directory without the permissions being 777. The example I gave will find anything with the world write bit set, whereas your example would find ONLY those with 777 permissions.

[Michael D'Aulerio]

Sandip,

You can also try:

find / -type d -perm -a+w

This will check for write permission regardless of what the read or execute permission is.

Mike D'.

[Mani Pushpanathan]

Hi,
THis command just lists out the file name with dir path. What if I want to list out the perm settings as well? Appreciate if someone can reply this. thanks

Mani

[MarkSyder]

Replace -print with -exec ll -d {} \;

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[MarkSyder]

I've just noticed the age of this thread and that Mani isn't the author. Mani, have you thought of starting your own thread so you can give points to the people who help you?

Mark