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I hardly call it a feature that any user can look at any other user's files.
What kind of security is that?<br>
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Joe Linux" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:joelinux@earthlink.net"><joelinux@earthlink.net></a><br>To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu"><luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu></a><br>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:30 AM<br>Subject: [luau] Unwanted Perrmissions Changes - Drake 8.2<br><br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I'm very frustrated. I want the permissions on my home directory and<br>other users home directory to be 770, but the Mandrake Linux System<br>constantly changes the permissions back to 755 on these directories. Is<br>there anyway to stop it from doing this?<br><br>Permissions and the lack of control over them are the most annoying<br>thing about Linux, and probably a primary reason the entire OS is not<br>very popular.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Please don't jump the gun and blame it on Linux. This sounds to be a<br>feature, not a bug, of Mandrake's MSEC security module that enforces certain<br>access controls because it thinks it knows better than the user. In most<br>cases it DOES know better than the user, but in your case you must figure<br>out how to disable it.<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php">http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php</a><br>Please read this page for more details. The simple fix would be to lower<br>your msec security level (you can find that in DrakConf).<br><br>Just remember when it comes to most security, security is an inverse curve<br>to usability.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>LUAU mailing list<br><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LUAU@videl.ics.hawaii.edu">LUAU@videl.ics.hawaii.edu</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://videl.ics.hawaii
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