-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:10:58 -0800, "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own:
>That is msec at work. For the record, the entire /usr directory (and /usr >subdirectories) should be owned by the root user. If you understand linux >security, and don't want to use msec at all (I HATE msec), you can turn it >off (as root) by editing the name of the msec executable in /sbin -- >changing the executable from "msec" to "DISABLEmsec". That will stop msec > >from running and replacing your permissions with what it feels are the >proper ones for your directories. CAUTION: You should have an >understanding of the workings of security and permissions if you disable >msec. I am sorry, but I don`t understand this advice. Some time ago I came from Windows, because my complaint was, amongst others, it`s lack of security. Now I am finally on a secure system (Linux) and we get an advice to turn off completely one of the main features of Mandrake`s security. Are you 100% sure that that is sound advice?? I would think that it would be better, if one must adjust the security, to go into Mandrake Control Center --> Security --> DrakSec and DrakPerm and change anything that you can`t do without and leave the rest unchanged. Regards, =Dick Gevers= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/5NH5wC/zk+cxEdMRAkmZAKDC4Xye3m+azyBQ9xgomICszmNvZQCfRM8l ibCpbVDGrGMIqycEs/rmtlw= =aS6Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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