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* Unexplained permission/ownership changesGrimble
+- Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changesAragorn
+- Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changesWilliam Unruh
+- Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changesBit Twister
`- Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changesGrimble

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Unexplained permission/ownership changes

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From: grim...@nomail.afraid.org (Grimble)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mageia
Subject: Unexplained permission/ownership changes
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:25:23 +0100
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 by: Grimble - Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:25 UTC

Can someone suggest a hidden process by which ownership of
/var/lib/boinc is changed from graeme:boinc to boinc:boinc and
permissions changed from drwxrwxr-x to drwxr-xr-x during start-up? I
have to change it back after re-booting for boinc to work, and it
happens on two machines. Something to do with msec?
--
Grimble
Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.20.4 on 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64

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From: thoron...@telenet.be (Aragorn)
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Subject: Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changes
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 by: Aragorn - Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:29 UTC

On 29.08.2021 at 11:25, Grimble scribbled:

> Can someone suggest a hidden process by which ownership of
> /var/lib/boinc is changed from graeme:boinc to boinc:boinc and
> permissions changed from drwxrwxr-x to drwxr-xr-x during start-up? I
> have to change it back after re-booting for boinc to work, and it
> happens on two machines. Something to do with msec?

msec would indeed be the primary suspect. Back when I was still
running Mandrake and then later Mageia, it also did weird things behind
my back. PCLinuxOS -- which I ran after Mageia for a while -- has it
too, but there it is not enabled by default, and I left it disabled.

--
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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From: unr...@invalid.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mageia
Subject: Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changes
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 by: William Unruh - Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:24 UTC

On 2021-08-29, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> Can someone suggest a hidden process by which ownership of
> /var/lib/boinc is changed from graeme:boinc to boinc:boinc and
> permissions changed from drwxrwxr-x to drwxr-xr-x during start-up? I
> have to change it back after re-booting for boinc to work, and it
> happens on two machines. Something to do with msec?

Since you are running Mageia, it runs msec every day. msec has one part
which checks file permission, and if set up to do so, it will change the
permissions to what they should be, according the Mageia packagers.
/etc/security/msec/perm.* (using the security level you assigned to the
installation).
Or there could be something in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

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From: BitTwis...@mouse-potato.com (Bit Twister)
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Subject: Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changes
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 by: Bit Twister - Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:18 UTC

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:25:23 +0100, Grimble wrote:
> Can someone suggest a hidden process by which ownership of
> /var/lib/boinc is changed from graeme:boinc to boinc:boinc and
> permissions changed from drwxrwxr-x to drwxr-xr-x during start-up? I
> have to change it back after re-booting for boinc to work, and it
> happens on two machines. Something to do with msec?

mcc->Security->Configure system security, permissions and audit

Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changes

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From: grim...@nomail.afraid.org (Grimble)
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Subject: Re: Unexplained permission/ownership changes
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 by: Grimble - Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:35 UTC

On 29/08/2021 11:25, Grimble wrote:
> Can someone suggest a hidden process by which ownership of
> /var/lib/boinc is changed from graeme:boinc to boinc:boinc and
> permissions changed from drwxrwxr-x to drwxr-xr-x during start-up? I
> have to change it back after re-booting for boinc to work, and it
> happens on two machines. Something to do with msec?
Thanks, all. I believe I've made the necessary changes to msec.

--
Grimble
Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.20.4 on 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64

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