"Directory world-writable" warning

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Fri Oct 6 17:54:49 UTC 2000


On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Edmund wrote:

> 
> In the log file, there's a warning message everytime bind 8.1.2 startup,
> 
> Directory . world-writable
> 
> I studied the code and realize that the message is generated as a
> warning of directory "." is writable by the others, however, no idea on
> what "." directory is ?    Anyone knows ?   Is it a security warning of
> a security hole in the system ?  Please help.  Thanks.

. is the current directory. Probably your /var/named is word writeble.


	Igmar




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