Re: world writeable files

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug com> writes:
> 
> I noticed that Nautilus was generating world-writeable files (the
> Mandrake msec security tool reported it). Darin Adler on the Nautilus
> list thought this is handled by GConf and there I should mention it here.
> 
... 
> Any plans to fix this soon? Thanks.
> 

Yes, certainly. I believe GConf is supposed to use the permissions you
have set for ~/.gconf for the subdirectories thereof. So it must be
buggy in that respect.

Can you send me the complete ls -l output on some of those files, and
on ~/.gconf, so I can see what it's up to?

Havoc