Hi Everyone, What would be causing the file privileges for "group" and "world" to change on a directory? For example, the security on /home/ftp_data changed from "drwxrwxrwx" to "drwxr-xr-x" even though no one did a "chmod" (or anything else) to that directory.
Here are the steps that were taken for this directory. Note: We need "write" privileges for "world" since we are FTP'ing some data into this file from a CGI script. 1. Log on as "root" 2. cd /home 3. chmod 777 ftp_data 4. "ls -l" shows: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 10:07 ftp_data/ 5. Ran the CGI script that ftp's data into "ftp_data". 6. After CGI script finishes, did "ls -l ftp_data" -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 18 14:20 31789_372474.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 17 09:37 34389_372474.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4281 Oct 17 10:07 85592_372474.dat 7. Then did "ls -l" from "/home" directory drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 14:20 ftp_data/ So, at this point we are able to see that we allowed "rwx" to "all", were able run a CGI script that wrote data into the "ftp_data" directory, and then showed that the "ftp_data" directory did not change it's privileges after the CGI script had finished. 7. About 30 minutes later, did another "ls -l" from "/home" and got the following: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 14:20 ftp_data/ which shows that "group" and "world" have their "write" privileges turned off. Note: We did not log off from "root" during this time. We do not have any "cron" jobs running, so we cannot think of any reason why the security on this directory keeps changing. As an FYI, we have another server running where we had made this same exact security change on "/home/ftp_data", and it has never changed it's settings. Thank you, Kathy
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