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rubicon · 06-01-2005, 01:44 PM

I recently installed Mandriva 10.2 due to a hard disk crash under 10.0. Anyway, I chose the Security Level High option for the hell of it. I configured Samba and had my Windows and Mac client connecting, however every hour or so the permissions to the shared folders would mysteriously change.

My shared folders (located in /home) are chmod 0770 and kept changing to 0700. This is a problem because I would lose access to the files. I hunted through Google and couldn't find anything helpful until something about the "msec" command appeared.

msec (under Mandriva at least) allows you to change your security level. More digging and I discovered msec parses config files to determine what it should do to ensure security is being met. I discovered a setting which forces chmod 0700 on folders located in /home.

I won't go into all of it here, but if you do a Google search for "msec" you'll find a good bit of information about changing your security level to something else or tweak the msec configuration. In my case, I simply overrode the /home setting from chmod 0700 to 0770.

I'm posting here as an FYI as I had a tough time tracking this down. Lower security levels don't have this problem.

06-01-2005, 01:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
rubicon Stop. Think. Question. Location: Redondo Beach, CA	Automatic changing of Linux permissions and msec I recently installed Mandriva 10.2 due to a hard disk crash under 10.0. Anyway, I chose the Security Level High option for the hell of it. I configured Samba and had my Windows and Mac client connecting, however every hour or so the permissions to the shared folders would mysteriously change. My shared folders (located in /home) are chmod 0770 and kept changing to 0700. This is a problem because I would lose access to the files. I hunted through Google and couldn't find anything helpful until something about the "msec" command appeared. msec (under Mandriva at least) allows you to change your security level. More digging and I discovered msec parses config files to determine what it should do to ensure security is being met. I discovered a setting which forces chmod 0700 on folders located in /home. I won't go into all of it here, but if you do a Google search for "msec" you'll find a good bit of information about changing your security level to something else or tweak the msec configuration. In my case, I simply overrode the /home setting from chmod 0700 to 0770. I'm posting here as an FYI as I had a tough time tracking this down. Lower security levels don't have this problem. __________________ How you do anything is how you do everything.