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World-Writable

Medium Permissions 20 pts Captured

Briefing

ls -l shows a permissions column like -rw-r--r--. Read it as three groups: user, group, others. A file that is rw-rw-rw- (octal 666) can be written by *anyone*. That is a classic security smell.

List the directory in long form and find the file that is too permissive.

Objective Find the one file whose permissions are rw-rw-rw- and read it.

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