[Techtalk] something is changing /home permissions automatically?

Jenny Brown jenny at bigbrother.net
Wed Apr 2 11:21:43 EST 2003


On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Mandi wrote:

> quick guess....
> check msec.  it runs out of cron.daily and cron.hourly.
> with msec, it runs in levels.  check /etc/sysconfig/msec for the level
> setting SECURE_LEVEL (2 may be what you want, possibly 1).


Yep, that was it!  Thanks much.  I dropped it to 2, which makes sense
for my environment, and that should take care of it.

And now I know that msec exists, which I didn't before.  :)  It's
actually pretty cool when it's behaving in a way that doesn't interfere
with my needs.



> You can also run "msec <level>" from a command line.
>
> more info here:  http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/prog-msec.html
>
>
> HTH
> --mandi
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jenny Brown wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a Mandrake box where I'm one of two sysadmins, it's a low
> > usage box, and I'm finding that something is forcing /home to be
> > chmod 711 every few hours.  I can set a person's home directory
> > readable (755) but then a few hours later it's set back, and not due to
> > that individual user or due to the other admin.
> >
> > There are no crons listed in root's crontab.  /home is an ext3
> > partition, if it matters.  It's not being mounted from a remote machine.
> > Active things on the system that might potentially mess with it
> > include automount, samba mount (mount.smbfs), and nfsd.  The box is
> > running mainly as a web development platform, apache, tomcat, php, java.
> >
> > I have so far been unable to track down what's changing permissions on
> > me and it's awfully hard to do a web search when "changing permissions
> > /home chmod" results in all kinds of beginner tutorials.
> >
> > Help?  I'm getting really lost as to where to look next.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Jenny Brown
> >
> >
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