On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 11:18 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 10:44 pm, Lee wrote: > > I mounted a large drive on /usr/images. I then set up Samba and changed > > the ownership of /usr/images to be my user account as owner (chown > > myuser:myuser images) > > > > After doing a backup or a file copy to this folder from my WinXP machine, > > the ownership of /usr/images changes back to 'root'. Thus I get an access > > denied error. > > > > Next, I remounted the drive as /var/images (and reconfigure Samba) and I > > don't have the problem. Ownership stays put as my user account... > > > > Can someone explain what's going on here? > > Its called 'security' You may not have heard of it if you have been using > Windows. > > Mandrake runs a script hourly called 'msec' to ensure that your box is > secure to prevent it being compromised. One of the checks it does is to > ensure that the ownership of files is secure. Everything in /usr ought to > belong to root. So if you change anything then msec will change it back > again. > If you want to override msec for this folder then you can use the drakperm > security GUI in Mandrake Control Centre. The manual describes it here > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/docs/9.2/en/Drakxtools-Guide.html/drakperm.html > > and you can read more about msec here > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php > > derek
If I can add to my own post. A simple way around the issue is to mount your drive in /mnt msec will not complain about the ownerships in there. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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