On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:14:22AM -0000, Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: >> > It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize >> > for >> >> Yes, it is shellutils package, and to fix it, just make /bin/su suid root. >> > Yep, that did the trick. Thanks! Now, my next question regards things that > change permissions while you're not looking. For instance, I changed the > groups on my /etc/ppp directory yesterday (mentioned in my last post), and > today it was changed back to root:root. Is this something that might be a > cron job? I must admit ignorance to cron syntax... What should I look for? > > Thanks again,
Perhaps you updated your system? Whenever you update your system (upgrading ppp for instance) the directory permissions will revert to their defaults. You can make a script to change things back each time you update software. I did that just two days ago because I prefer that certain executables be owned root.wheel and be non-executable by 'others' -- Andrew
