At 16:53 Uhr -0400 23.7.2001, Dan Christensen wrote:
Does anyone know if a Debian system is susceptible to this problem,
it is
and if so, which files may have been created world-writable?
Files from quite many servers: look in /var/run, for example (another place is /tmp).
I have put a line 'umask 022' at the top of /etc/init.d/rc to solve it (/etc/init.d/rcS already has a umask 022 command).
chj