[lug] Weird permission changing

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:32:08PM -0700, Chip Atkinson wrote:
>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've seen that sort of thing happen through user-error.  Using "~" instead
of "*" or "." particular when doing recursive things.  Don't even ask
about the guy who was doing "rm -rf /" every few days, nor the DBA on that
same system that set up the Oracle databases in world rwx directories.
Ugh.

Sean
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