[Nagiosplug-help] world-writable /root/nagiosinstall/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins

[Christian Schneemann]

On Thursday October 9 2008 12:34:34 pm Norton, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
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> Just a quick question, our security scans show this directory up as
> being world-writeable
> (/root/nagiosinstall/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins) any implications of
> removing the world-writable?
Hi,
here the plugins-directory /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ ) is not world-writeable. 
Do we speak about the same directory? Your path looks a bit strange 
(testinstallation?).

But it is not necessary to have the directory with the plugins in 
world-writeable.

Greetings,
	Christian

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> Paul Norton
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> Systems Administrator,



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