The sticky bit must be set on all public directories.

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The sticky bit must be set on all public directories.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51285	OSX8-00-01120	SV-65495r2_rule		Medium

Description
The sticky bit must be set on all public directories.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53633r2_chk )
Run the following command to view all world-writable directories that do not have the sticky bit set: sudo find / -type d \( -perm -0002 -a ! -perm -1000 \) If anything is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56085r1_fix)
Run the following command to set the sticky bit on all world-writable directories: sudo find / -type d \( -perm -0002 -a ! -perm -1000 \) -exec chmod +t {} \;