[GRLUG] strange permissions change issue

[Ben Rousch]

Were you running gedit as root or sudo'ed into another account
yesterday? This is easy to do if you are starting gedit from the
command line.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> Yesterday I was able to save files to /var/www/html. Today when I try to
> do that I get a permission denied message from gedit. As far as I know,
> I have done nothing in between to change any ownership or permissions
> settings.
>
> I experimented with a libreoffice document, trying to save it
> to /var/www/html and got this error message:
>     Error saving the document Untitled1:
>     /var/www/html/text-20120313.odt does not exist.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how this could have happened? Could an
> automatic update have changed some of those settings?
> -I don't remember authorizing any updates yesterday or this morning.
> -/var/www/html is owned by root with permissions 755. Presumably this is
> not the way it was yesterday when I was able to save to this directory.
> -the error, icons, and manual sub-dirs under www were changed yesterday,
> but there's no change indicated for html sub-dir since Feb 13.
> -I am able to save to subdirectories in html which are owned by me.
>
> I fixed it (chown root:apache; chmod 775) where apache group includes
> me. But still curious as to how this could have changed over night.
>
> EB
>
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