[GRLUG] strange permissions change issue

[Eric Beversluis]

Following up on this hint, I got to /etc/security, where there's a file
console.perms and a directory console.perms.d. The directory is empty.
The file refers to
 device classes -- see console.perms.d/50-default.perms
# permission definitions -- see console.perms.d/50-default.perms

But I don't find this 50-default.perms file, since ls -al shows no files
in console.perms.d. Not that I'd want to mess with the settings, but it
would be nice to understand better what's happening. I think what
happened was that I installed PEAR yesterday and when that finished the
permissions and owners for /var/www/html got reset. But this hasn't
happened when I've done other installations, either with yum or with the
Add/remove software GUI.

(Fedora 15)

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 08:07 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> 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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