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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