On Friday 19 April 2002 2:05 pm, Steven Watt wrote: > Hello > > I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on a desktop Pentium III system. > > I've created a /home/music (user root, group root) directory to be > accessible to different users. I set the permissions to 777. Although > everything works fine right after I set the permissions, it eventually > always changes to 711, making it impossible for ordinary users to read > or write the files (although I guess they could execute them...) > > Why are the permissions changing on their own? It seems to be only the > /home/music directory that is affected, not the files and folders inside > of it. > > Steve Watt
Thats the msec process going around checking for security leaks. If you make this folder owned by some user/group in which your regular users are members then it should be OK. Read about msec here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php derek
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