thats it!, thanks to all who replied, this was driving me mad! -----Original Message----- From: K Montgomery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 14:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] chmod and higher security level
Tell me about it! :) I just solved this exact problem myself yesterday. It's Mandrake's security program "msec" that's doing this to you. I fixed it by going to /usr/share/msec and editing the perm.? file (where "?" is the number corresponding to the security level you are using) and commenting out the line that says "/home/*". It's this particular line that says all directories in /home should have a certain level of permissions. If you comment the line, msec won't change the permissions of subdirectories of /home. (When you look at the entire file you'll probably get the gist.) The command "rpm -ql msec" will list all the files in the msec package, if you want to poke around (as I like to do). - Kathy On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:18, Griffiths, Daniel wrote: > Hi All, > > This may be a silly question but I have been searching the net for a while and not > found an answer.. > > I have mandrake 9.0 and installed choosing the higher level of security. > My intention is using the system as a web server for a few different sites, the > files being located in the /home/<user>/public_html dir and a user set up for each > site i.e. /home/site1/public_html. All this is fine however I need to give o+x > rights in this case to /home/site1 as it dosn't have them (due to the higher level > security option?), which I do with chmod while logged on as root. This works and the > website is available but after about half an hour the rights are revoked and it > becomes unavailable again. I know this must be due to some security proccess running > in the background reseting the rights but I can't find what. Does anyone know why > this is happening and how to avoid it? > > I suspect I am trying to do something that mandrake is not happy with from a > security point of view so if anyone knows the right way please let me know. > > Many thanks > Dan >
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