I can look to see if you have auditctl on your system.

----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Russell [[email protected]]
Sent: 06/10/2010 02:14 PM MST
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to determine who or what changed directory ownership



I've recently inherited a Redhat 5.4 system and am not terribly familiar
with the application running on it. :-(

A directory ownership changes periodically from aa:bb to cc:cc

That causes grief because process that try to write to that directory fail
due to permission problems.

Am I correct that the culprit must be running as root in order to change the
ownership that way, or could user "aa" or a member of group "bb: change the
ownership to cc:cc?
The permissions on the directory are 755 (drwxr_xr_x) sub-directories/files
are not altered.

Next question... and this is the fun one... is there a way to log who/what
changes the file ownership... those events don't get logged in
/var/log/messages

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.


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