On Thursday 28 March 2002 17:56, Jim Dawson wrote:
> 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.


At a guess I would say msec is doing it
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php

derek

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