I created a directory '/home/shared' to use for a shared nfs/samba mount
point. (/home is the only partition I have large enough for the shared
area, plus I can back up the shared directory along with home
directories by simply backing up /home.) I changed the group ownership
to 'shared' and assigned the appropriate members to the 'shared' group,
and issued a 'chmod 770 /home/shared' to allow the 'shared' group full
access to the folder.

At first the members of the shared group could access the directory
fine, however after a while the folder was no longer accessible and I
noticed that the permissions had reverted back to '700'. The directory
was accessible again but the permissions reverted back to '700' shortly
thereafter.

What could be causing the permissions to change on their own? I am
running Mandrake 8.2 and I set the security level to 'high' during
installation.

Thanks in advance.


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