On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:11, Avi Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be > more appropriate for the expert list. > > I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in > relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to > /etc/security/msec/perm.local and then executed msec. I found that > msec does not make the requested changes unless I pass it the security > level parameter as in > > msec 4 > > If I don't pass this parameter, the local changes are not executed. > Even if I do pass this parameter, on the hour, cron executes > /etc/cron.hourly/msec which again resets my local changes and reverts > to the default. > > The reason for this is that in the following line in msec: > > /usr/share/msec/Perms.py $CHANGE $OPT /usr/share/msec/perm.$PERM_LEVEL > $LOCAL > > $CHANGE is not set and therefore the local changes do not get saved. > For now I hard coded in the msec script CHANGE=-c so that the changes > will be saved. > > Is this a bug in msec or am I missing some setting which will force > msec to use my local changes? > > Thanks, > Avi
puzzling. Seems like a bug -- I can only assume that I've made my changes manually and then altered perm.local so they'll stick, otherwise I should have seen this too. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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