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Removing World Writable Permissions
Posted on 2013-01-08
I need help with creating either an if statement that will look at the $PATH for root and remove any world writable permissions.
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for dir in $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " "); do echo chmod -R o-w $dir; done
Or, shorter:
echo chmod -R o-w $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ")
echo is for a dry run, remove it to actually perform the operations.
Run the above as root.
Or, shorter:
echo chmod -R o-w $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ")
echo is for a dry run, remove it to actually perform the operations.
Run the above as root.
This works! Thanks just one more question I believe the STIG finding is for any world writable permissions for root's $PATH. So could I put in there chmod -R u+w $dir
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