Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: Two comments: 1) The problem most people have with msec and permissions isn't that it somehow doesn't allow them to make a change, but that when the msec cron job runs later, it detects whatever change was made (by comparing current

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 10:05 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:33:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is set up. It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override msec's behavior in some

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is set up. It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override msec's behavior in

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is set up. It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override msec's behavior in

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 10:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is set up. It is not there by default.

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: The format of the file is explained in the comments at the top of the file itself, and further info is in the console.perms man page. I would think that to prevent the switch of the v4l device's

[expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:33:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged