[luau] Unwanted Perrmissions Changes - Drake 8.2

[Joe Linux]

Well I've spent all day trying to figure it out and now I'm about ready 
to go out and buy a Mac.

Warren Togami wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joe Linux" <joelinux at earthlink.net>
>To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:30 AM
>Subject: [luau] Unwanted Perrmissions Changes - Drake 8.2
>
>
>>I'm very frustrated.  I want the permissions on my home directory and
>>other users home directory to be 770, but the Mandrake Linux  System
>>constantly changes the permissions back to 755 on these directories.  Is
>>there anyway to stop it from doing this?
>>
>>Permissions and the lack of control over them are the most annoying
>>thing about Linux, and probably a primary reason the entire OS is not
>>very popular.
>>
>
>Please don't jump the gun and blame it on Linux.  This sounds to be a
>feature, not a bug, of Mandrake's MSEC security module that enforces certain
>access controls because it thinks it knows better than the user.  In most
>cases it DOES know better than the user, but in your case you must figure
>out how to disable it.
>
>http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
>Please read this page for more details.  The simple fix would be to lower
>your msec security level (you can find that in DrakConf).
>
>Just remember when it comes to most security, security is an inverse curve
>to usability.
>
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