-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-13 at 01:51 -0000, Stuart Neill wrote:
Understood now? :-)
I possibly do understand although my phrasing might not have been particularly precise.
File permissions are as they are until modified firstly by any entry in /etc/permissions.easy and then by /etc/permissions.local for a system such as mine where PERMISSION_SECURITY within /etc/sysconfig/security is set to "easy local". Any User Account will operate with these permissions. Is this better?
Perfect! :-) Well, except the user account part. It affects system files, it is not used for user's files. There is another mechanism that sets some permissions for devices based on who is logged in, for instance.
If I do find that I have a permissions problem is it then better practice to modify /etc/permissions.local than to change a files permission more directly?
If a file is listed in /etc/permissions.easy, and the permissions it sets are not those you want, then it is much better to add your settings to /etc/permissions.local. If it is not listed, then you can change the permissions directly, as the system will not modify it back - except if the file is replaced by an rpm update. What you should not do is edit /etc/permissions.easy (nor secure nor paranoid). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF9gcNtTMYHG2NR9URAiUnAKCANZMCyhhhRsIkxcp0u0XKiUS1dwCggt2c 4eWxVGIXnpoVoZKyCsYfnC8= =JYEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org