Hello and welcome to LQ, hope you like it here.
I have to use a PPPoE with User Name and Password to connect. Luckily all LiveCD's include RP-PPPoE on the CD. This offers exactly what I need but when I run it and enter User Name and Password every LiveCD returns the error: Error starting Connection: SECURITY ALERT - Root (/) writable by group or other.
The check (it's not an application error) is in (rp-pppoe-$version/gui/)wrapper.c where it does a stat on the root directory "/" and proceeds to check the st_mode (DAC or "rwx" access rights) for writability by group (S_IWGRP) and other (S_IWOTH):
Code:
/* Check root directory */
if (stat("/", &buf) < 0) {
// ...
if (buf.st_mode & (S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)) {
fprintf(stderr, "SECURITY ALERT: Root directory (/) writable by group or other\n");
return 0;
}
Does anyone know what I can do to correct this error?
You can check for yourself what the rights on "/" are by running running (w/o outer quotes) "stat -c %a /".
It should return "755".
If not, run "chmod 755 /" to fix it.
