Vulnerability Development: Re: slackware permissions

From: Maciek <maciek_at_opolcan.com.pl>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:55:58 +0200

I agree on my Slackware with 2.4.5 kernel /var/log/cron is -rw-rw-rw

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From: "Jakub Jankowski" <shasta_at_quasimodo.olsztyn.tpsa.pl>
To: <vuln-dev_at_securityfocus.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: slackware permissions

> On 2001-08-04, kERPLUNK wrote:
>
> >> Can anyone else confirm or deny that /var/log/cron has perms 666 in
> >> slackware 8.0?
> >
> >my slackware 8, has 644 perms.
>
> It depends on the kernel you choose to work with. If you choose 2.4.5
> - both /var/log/cron and /etc/random-seed will be 666'ed because of
> the umask 000 set by that kernel (those files are created upon first
> successful boot, by the system startup scripts). If you choose 2.2.19
> kernel - /var/log/cron and /etc/random-seed have 644 modes.
>
> Regards,
> Jakub
>
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Received on Aug 06 2001