[luau] Unwanted Perrmissions Changes - Drake 8.2

[Joe Linux]

I think I'll put in my RedHat 7.3 drive.  I think the issue with that 
was I didn't have permission as a user to start kppp.  It must be more 
secure.

Joe Linux wrote:

> I hardly call it a feature that any user can look at any other user's 
> files.  What kind of security is that?
>
> Then it takes a full day to figure out nothing about how to fix it? 
>  Trust me, these are some of the reasons people are very slow to 
> migrate to Linux.
>
>
> 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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