World Writable Harvest Files

Products

• CA Harvest Software Change Manager - OpenMake Meister
• CA Harvest Software Change Manager

Issue/Introduction

After installing CA Harvest SCM on a Linux or Unix platrform our system administrator has noticed that some of the files installed have been granted "world-write" permisisons.  Can these permissions safely be removed to make the installation more secure?

Environment

Harvest SCM, all versions
Linux and Unix platforms

Resolution

World write permissions can be removed from all files in the CA Harvest SCM installation folders except for the $CA_SCM_HOME/log folder.  This folder and all files inside it must be world-writable.