Symptom
- Security software raises exception for world-writable permission on FlexNetFs file
- Directory /dev/shm/ contains
- one or more files called FlexNetFs.xxxxx (the suffix is a varying number, linked to a process ID) and/or
- a file with /dev/shm/.flexnetfs
- Both the directory and the files are world-writable, which is raised as a security violation
- List outputs can show, for example:
sybase:dba:rw-rw-rw-:/dev/shm/.flexnetfs
- List outputs can show, for example:
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Environment
- SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise
- SAP Replication Server
- SAP IQ
- SySAM licensing
- Linux OS
Product
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise all versions
Keywords
/dev/shm, /dev/shm/FlexNetFs, /dev/shm/FlexNetFs.xxxxx, /shm/.flexnetfs, world writable, world-writable, Linux, Red Hat, permission, permissions, FlexNet, FlexNet FileSystem, FlexNet file system , FlexNetFs , .flexnetfs , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , Problem
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