Unix Tip: CHMOD THE SYSTEM

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Unix Tip 3222 - December 1, 2008

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CHMOD THE SYSTEM

Along the lines of:

D O N O T D O T H I S!

Reports from several admins have been made that dangerous users who obtain root for the first time enable full access to the entire system. They are using the following command:

# chmod -R 777 /

If you feel you have any dangerous users, please advice them of the dangers of executing such a command.

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