[GRLUG] strange permissions change issue

[Ben Rousch]

This might help:
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6617_102-50502/permissions-reset-at-boot/

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> ??So yesterday I changed /var/www/html so I could save to it
> (root:apache; 775). This morning it's back to root:root; 755) and I
> can't save to it again. What could be going on?
>
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:10 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> No--just regular gedit from my normal login. And it wasn't just
>> yesterday--I've been saving those php files to that directory regularly
>> until this morning.
>> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 10:05 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
>> > 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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