permission magically changed

Nadeem Bitar nadiizu at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 1 08:52:26 UTC 2004


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
> 
> 





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