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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