Re: Permissions

[Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU (Valdis Kletnieks)]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:49:49 CDT, you said:
> Are there any attacks that any of you have heard of that would change all
> the permissions on the drive to 755 RECURSIVELY?  Running RH Linux 6.2

Have you ruled out a simple 'chmod -R 755 .' in the wrong directory? ;)

Never ascribe it to a hacker attack unless you have *ruled out* sysadmin
stupidity.

/Valdis (who once did a 'chmod 644 /' and then couldnt figure out why users
couldn't logon ;)

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