something mess-up with /dev/null permissions

Pal, Laszlo (private) vlad at vlad.hu
Tue May 20 18:26:00 UTC 2014


Yeah, I've created audit rules according to this, so let's see after 
next reboot...

Thx for help
L:


On Tue 20 May 2014 08:13:44 PM CEST, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Pal, Laszlo (private) wrote:
>> Recently I've discovered a strange thing... some rule/program or
>> whatever changing the access rights of /dev/null to
>>
>> crw-------. 1 root root 1, 3 May 20 11:57 /dev/null
>>
>> and some of the part of Fedora does not like it:)
>>
>> After I change back to 666, everything is fine again, however after boot
>> I have again the "wrong" permission
>>
>> is this a bug or feature?:)  What can cause this? After google the
>> problem, I can find some very old bug, so maybe it is back again
>>
>> Any idea?
>
> That is not normal.
>
> You could setup an auditctl rule to watch /dev/null for permission
> changes. There is a manpage (and exhaustive support on Google) for
> auditctl.
>


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