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Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?
i've seen the same problem. no answer, but i'm thinking it's one
of the deamons associated with security
levels/permissions/authorizations. possibly msec, since it does
run a cron job if installed and running. check "ps ax | grep
msec" as root to verify.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katherine Richmond)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?
>No, all we have to do is wait about 30 - 45 minutes and it
changes back to
>drwxr-xr-x (automatically?)
>
>Kathy
>
>
>
>
>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Have you started and stopped ftp or any service that uses
>that directory recently?
>> 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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I saw this on the list before, and it was due to security set to high or at least above standard. Could be the problem. HTH
Dennis M.
