[lug] Weird permission changing

[D. Stimits]

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I'm getting some strange behavior and was wondering if anyone has seen
> anything similar.  I seem to have file permissions changing now and then.
> For example, the .ssh/identity file changed mode from 600 oto 644.
> There are other files that have changed permissions too, but it doesn't
> appear that there are trojan version of any files, that I can see.
> 
> I'm just looking for any hints to save some time at this point.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Chip
> 
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What distribution? I know SuSE has yast do some things during startup,
and can end up altering file permissions to match what it thinks they
should be. I don't know if other distros do that.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com