Some process is magically changing :-) the permission of my home directory and stripping the execute bit. I changed it back multiple times but it's being automatically changed later. Any ideas how to fix that? I already tried lsof but didn't find anything suspicious.
Thanks,
Nadeem
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:57, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
Some process is magically changing :-) the permission of my home directory and stripping the execute bit. I changed it back multiple times but it's being automatically changed later. Any ideas how to fix that? I already tried lsof but didn't find anything suspicious.
Thanks,
Nadeem
You may want to check to see if you've been rooted. http://www.chkrootkit.org/
Mike.
On 火, 2004-08-31 at 15:13 -0400, Michael E. Webster wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:57, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
Some process is magically changing :-) the permission of my home directory and stripping the execute bit. I changed it back multiple times but it's being automatically changed later. Any ideas how to fix that? I already tried lsof but didn't find anything suspicious.
Thanks,
Nadeem
You may want to check to see if you've been rooted. http://www.chkrootkit.org/
That's the first thing I checked but luckily everything looks normal.
Mike.
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:21, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
On 火, 2004-08-31 at 15:13 -0400, Michael E. Webster wrote:
You may want to check to see if you've been rooted. http://www.chkrootkit.org/
That's the first thing I checked but luckily everything looks normal.
Have you looked in the cron files to see if you have an errant chmod command running? Is this just on the home directory itself, or is it recursive? Does it happen with other files/directories? Does it happen on certain days? Any other general info on it would be helpful.
Forrest
The problem turned out to be firefox. When i downloaded a particular file using firefox the permission of only my home directory was changing and I wasn't able to save the file. I was able to download the same file using epiphany which is weird.
On 火, 2004-08-31 at 12:33 -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:21, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
On 火, 2004-08-31 at 15:13 -0400, Michael E. Webster wrote:
You may want to check to see if you've been rooted. http://www.chkrootkit.org/
That's the first thing I checked but luckily everything looks normal.
Have you looked in the cron files to see if you have an errant chmod command running? Is this just on the home directory itself, or is it recursive? Does it happen with other files/directories? Does it happen on certain days? Any other general info on it would be helpful.
Forrest
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:52:26AM -0700, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
The problem turned out to be firefox. When i downloaded a particular file using firefox the permission of only my home directory was changing and I wasn't able to save the file. I was able to download the same file using epiphany which is weird.
If you can find a way to reproduce this you might have found a bug.
Make a dummy user account and tinker.
There may be a bug in firefox, the user interface, the lack of a notifier or operator error.
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