The Photon operating system must be configured so that all global initialization scripts are protected from unauthorized modification.

Local initialization files are used to configure the user's shell environment upon login. Malicious modification of these files could compromise accounts upon login.

At the command line, run the following command:

# find /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/ -xdev -type f -a '(' -perm -002 -o -not -user root -o -not -group root ')' -exec ls -ld {} \;

If any files are returned, this is a finding.

At the command line, run the following commands for each returned file:

# chmod o-w <file>
# chown root:root <file>