[CLUE-Tech] Re:"getting insanely frustrated" / Mandrake Permissions

[Joe Linux]

After doing three installs of Red Hat 7.3 and then another install of 
Mandrake 8.2 using the "ext3" file system, I found the program which was 
overwriting the permissions of "/home/users" was "msec."

"msec" is Mandrake's computer security program and you have to have it 
set on "high" as opposed to "standard" to get the system to block one 
user from entering another user's territory.

Perhaps Mandrake should rename their "standard" security level as "poor" 
since "high" is actually standard.

The only rationale I can think of is that they consider the dominate O$ 
as "standard" which actually equates to "poor."

The long and short of it is to avoid the "standard" permissions level in 
Mandrake 8.2

By the way, "msec" can be easily reset with the Mandrake Control Center GUI.

I changed the security level to "high" on the drive using the XFS file 
system and the problem also went away.








David Anselmi wrote:

>Joe Linux wrote:
>
>>I totally agree with with you I wasted two full days of my life just
>>getting the permissions to stick on my "home" in Mandrake 8.2
>>
>
>Did you fix this?  If so, what did it take?  The answer won't be in
>google for the next guy unless you tell us.
>
>Dave
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