[Techtalk] something is changing /home permissions automatically?

[Jenny Brown]

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