Bug 63854 - world-writable file in /root
Summary: world-writable file in /root
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-core
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-19 16:44 UTC by Ben Levenson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-27 00:00:27 UTC
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Description Ben Levenson 2002-04-19 16:44:51 UTC 
Description of Problem:
don't know if this is very significant, but there is a world writable file in 
/root
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root          150 Apr 19 12:27
/root/.gnome-desktop/.nautilus-metafile.xml

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tree: re0419.4
gnome-core-1.4.0.4-54
nautilus-1.0.6-14

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Full server install from re0419.4 
2. startx
3. check for world-writable files

Expected Results:
no world-writable files in /root/
Comment 1 Ben Levenson 2002-04-27 00:00:21 UTC 
the current Pensacola tree contains nautilus-1.0.4-44.1 which also contains
this bug.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-04-28 16:50:34 UTC 
Errata is in the works.
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