Linux / UNIX Find All World-Writable Directories Have Sticky Bits Set

To find all world-writable directories that have the sticky bit set in Linux/UNIX, you can use the find command.

The sticky bit is represented by the letter “t” in the permission bits for a directory. A directory that has the sticky bit set can only be deleted by its owner, even if it is world-writable.

To find all world-writable directories that have the sticky bit set, you can run the following command as root:

This command finds all directories (-type d) that have the write permission set for all users (-perm -2) and the sticky bit set (-perm /1000) in the entire file system (/).

The output will be a list of all directories that match the criteria, for example:

In this example, both /var/tmp and /tmp are world-writable directories that have the sticky bit set.