how to stop system from auto resetting permissions of /home folder?

gain · 08-10-2006, 02:23 AM

Hi!

I am using Mandriva 10.2

My problem is the system resets the folder permissions of the /home/* folder to drwx------ (or user only access permission) even if I set it differently.

Even after I perform chmod operation to reset the /home/* folder to the correct permissions (drwxr-xr-x) so that the user's public_html to be accessible to the web I find that after a minute the system resets it back to (drwx------).

I temporarily solved the problem by creating a crontab to change the permissions back every 1 minute. But I am not happy about this solution.

A look at the log file (/var/log/messages) reveals that the only process running every minute aside from my crontab is the promisc_check.sh. But I heard that it is harmless.

Any ideas?

JoeDuncan · 08-10-2006, 08:49 AM

I don't know about Mandriva, the last time I used it was Mandrake 10.0. However, Mandrake 10.0 had a security wizard that would set master permissions, so if you changed any of them a daemon (msec or something) would then set them back for you.

You could access the wizard by going into the Mandrake Control Panel and choose "Security" and then it was something to do with file permissions.

This would open a wizard where you could set the master file access policies that would be maintained by the daemon. So you could set the permissions you wanted there, instead of using "chmod ...".

JoeDuncan · 08-10-2006, 08:51 AM

I don't know about Mandriva, the last time I used it was Mandrake 10.0. However, Mandrake 10.0 had a security wizard that would set master permissions, so if you changed any of them a daemon (msec or something) would then set them back for you.

You could access the wizard by going into the Mandrake Control Panel and choose "Security" and then it was something to do with file permissions.

This would open a wizard where you could set the master file access policies that would be maintained by the daemon. So you could set the permissions you wanted there, instead of using "chmod ...".

JoeDuncan · 08-10-2006, 08:52 AM

Sorry for the double post, the first time I tried it said I was not logged in, and my post didn't show up, so I logged in again an re-posted and bam! both posts show up... weird.

JoeDuncan · 08-10-2006, 08:55 AM

This link should help you out. The wizard is called "DrakPerm"

http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandrak.../drakperm.html

Note that this is from the Madriva 10.1 documentation site, but it still says Mandrake in the URL.

gain · 08-17-2006, 09:59 PM

Thank you very much. You're very good.