On 21-Jun-2002 Chris Bayley wrote:
> I have a directory upon which the permissions keep reverting:
> I chmod them to 775 then some time later (maybe an hour) they revert to
> 755, it appears to be be msec (mandrake security) that crons hourly, but
> I havn't yet figured how msec knows which directories to 'fix' and hwo
> to make leave mine alone....
> anyone familiar with msec ??

Yup.

locate is your friend :)

/usr/share/msec/perm.* contain the information for the various security 
levels.  I'll leave as 'an exercise for the reader' the finding of where 
it stores the current security level :)

Cheers,
Brian Chatterton

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