On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, > > chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and > > in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't > > be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. > > msec. > > it doesn't *like* you to mess with file perms outside of your home > dir, mostly. > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html
But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged out and in again. Then anne owned it again. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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