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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." <br>
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"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. <br>
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Perhaps Mandrake should rename their "standard" security level as "poor"
since "high" is actually standard. <br>
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The only rationale I can think of is that they consider the dominate O$ as
"standard" which actually equates to "poor." <br>
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The long and short of it is to avoid the "standard" permissions level in
Mandrake 8.2<br>
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By the way, "msec" can be easily reset with the Mandrake Control Center GUI.<br>
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I changed the security level to "high" on the drive using the XFS file system
and the problem also went away.<br>
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David Anselmi wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Joe Linux wrote:<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I totally agree with with you I wasted two full days of my life just<br>getting the permissions to stick on my "home" in Mandrake 8.2<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Did you fix this? If so, what did it take? The answer won't be in<br>google for the next guy unless you tell us.<br><br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>CLUE-Tech mailing list<br><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:CLUE-Tech@clue.denver.co.us">CLUE-Tech@clue.denver.co.us</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech">http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech</a><br><br></pre>
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