All public directories must be owned by root or an application account.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-65491r1_rule All public directories must be owned by root or an application account.

Vulnerability discussion

Check content

To display all directories that are writable by all, run the following command: sudo find / -type d -perm -1002 -not -uid 0 If anything is returned, this is a finding.

Fix text

To change the ownership of any finding, run the following command: sudo find / -type d -perm -1002 -not -uid 0 -exec chown root {} \;

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