[NTLUG:Discuss] permission detection tool(?)

[Stephen Davidson]

Johnny Cybermyth wrote:
> I recently made a major blunder and changed permissions on every file
> and directory in the /usr directory.  I am slowly discovering all of
> the applications that I broke.
>
> I have an application that writes files and directories under a
> specific directory in my file system (/backup/music/).  This
> application now no longer is able to write files to that directory.  I
> can run the application using sudo and it will write just fine.
>
> I've made sure that the destination directory is writable to me in a
> normal shell.  The directory has the following permissions:
>
> drwxrwxr-x    root    johnny
>
> When I look at the system monitor, it says that my application is a
> process belonging to johnny.  I'm not sure how else to check what gid
> the programming is running under.  Is there some type of trace tool
> that will detect when a program is prevented from creating a file due
> to insufficient permissions?
>
> Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
>
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SuSE has a package called "Permissions" that takes of stuff like that. 
I found out about a a couple of years back, when they had the
permissions and group setting for pppd improperly configured.  I would
"fix" the permissions, and a couple of days later, they would be wrong
again.  Eventually found the manual, and the files that could be used to
set the  file permissions and groups for a local system.

Just a suggestion.

-Steve
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