I agree, I see false positives on my systems where the only output
from a manual 'sudo find / -type f -perm o+w' is errors on /proc
directories.
Andrew
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Robert Sanders <rsanders@trustedcs.com> wrote:
> I was wondering why the tests for 'Ensure all Files Are Owned by a User' and
> 'Ensure all Files are Owned by a Group' kept on failing. Drilling down it
> looks like the underlying find command being used is along the lines of :
>
> find PARTITION -xdev -nouser -print
>
> When I run this command manually I've had complaints that find can't read
> files in /proc. Looking at the man page suggests this can be avoided by
> adding the '-ignore_readdir_race' option before the -xdev option.
>
> This change may need to be added for both SSG items 2.2.3.e and 2.2.3.f
>
> -Rob
>