On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> When "msec" sets permissions on "/home" it blatantly assumes that every
> subdir of "/home" is a users dir an as such it changes it's permissions.
>
> I think ***THIS IS WRONG***, since most people/sites keep a lot of other
> stuff in "/home", and this msec behavior suddenly stops a lot of
> applications that may be have dirs at "/home".
>
> I think the correct way to do this is to make a list of homedirs from
> /etc/passwd and then apply appropriate permissions to those dirs only.
>
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah hrmmmmmmmmmmm
Well when setting permissions it doesn't change any permissions on sub-dirs in
/home
It simply does a chmod a-r /home
It shouldn't affect any programs dirs that reside in /home
e.g.: /home/httpd /home/ftp /home/dns etc.........
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