Find world writable configuation files, or world readable containing passwords.

search.py

import re
import sys
import os
import stat

def search(directory):
    pattern = re.compile("(?i)pass|secret|key")
    for rootdir, subdirs, files in os.walk(directory):
        for filename in files:
            path = os.path.join(rootdir, filename)
            finfo = os.stat(path)
            if finfo.st_mode & stat.S_IROTH:
                content = open(path).read()
                if pattern.match(content):
                    print("{} contains password!".format(path))
            if finfo.st_mode & stat.S_IWOTH:
                print("{} world writable!".format(path))



if __name__ == "__main__":
    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        search(arg)